Mark Shuttleworth spoke via video to UbuCon at the Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 and announced the name of the next Ubuntu release. Ubuntu 10.04 will be code named “Lucid Lynx” and will be an LTS release with support for the desktop for 3 years and for the server for 5 years.
The Kubuntu German Community Team recently interviewed one of the newer Kubuntu developers, Jonathan Thomas. In Jonathan’s interview, he talks in detail about the Kubuntu Jaunty release, his amazing and popular work on the Weather Wallpaper, upstream relations and more.
kubuntu-de.org: We can’t wait to get Jaunty released, but the next release is also planned and it will be called “Karmic Koala”. Is the K in there a special incentive for you?Jonathan: I think I’d give it the same amount of work even if it was named “Giggling Gnome”, but I think that the K in there is pretty neat.
To read the interview in its entirety, go to http://www.kubuntu-de.org/english/interview-with-kubuntu-developer-jonathan-thomas.
In February we invited the Fridge readers to send in their questions for a future interview with the one and only, Mark Shuttleworth.
The interview, hosted by Jonathan Roberts, was turned into a 30 minute podcast available in MP3 and OGG formats.
Jonathan Roberts is preparing the next episode of his podcast, and his guest will be Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Ubuntu and Canonical. But Jonathan needs your questions. Please visit his web site for more details on how to submit questions to ask Mark during his interview. The recording will be on February 26th, so you will need to send in your questions before then.
Behind Ubuntu has published an interview with Ben Collins.
Ben Collins is the maintainer of the Linux Kernel in Ubuntu. In this interview you will learn about his work on Ubuntu, his love of vim, and why his servers are hosted in a real barn, surrounded by cows and electric fences.
This interview, and many others, are available on the Behind Ubuntu web site.
Just what is Ubuntu’s Community Manager hiding behind that beard?
Find out in BehindUbuntu’s revealing interview with our very own man of metal, Jono Bacon.
Learn of his love for Florida, Sausage Dogs and bash.org! Open your mouth wide in shock as he slips in a full two sentences pimping Jokosher!
You can also find out about Jono’s views on:
Meet the man behind the beard, in BehundUbuntu’s interview with Jono Bacon.
Behind Ubuntu has published an interview with Raphaël Pinson.
Raphaël is known for his work on Kubuntu, and more recently on Ichthux, a Linux distribution based on Kubuntu and aimed at Christian users and communities.
In his interview, we learn how Raphaël’s Christianity has influenced his involvement in the open source community, how he feels non-English speakers fare and what he gets up to in his spare time.
This interview, and many others, are available on the Behind Ubuntu web site. Pop over to read the whole sequence now!
The latest edition of the weekly BBC World Service show Digital Planet, carries an interview with none other than our SABDFL, Mark Shuttleworth.
On the show, Mark talks about Ubuntu, with his inspirations for running the Ubuntu project. The role of free software in education and developing countries is discussed regarding a South Africa project supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation allowing students to download and print certified educational materials for no cost.
You can download and listen to the podcast of the show from the Digital Planet homepage. Mark Shuttleworth’s interview on an Open Source future is right at the very beginning.
Note: It has been reported that the commandline-based MP3 decoder 'mpg123' may have trouble the podcast MP3 link (11MB). Mplayer plays this file fine after skipping some initial data at the front of the file.
Kenny Duffus sent us word that Behind Ubuntu have a shiny interview with Matt Zimmerman (aka mdz), Ubuntu’s Chief Technologist Officer (CTO).
Matt was one of the early people to come on board to the Ubuntu project having been recruited from his involved work with Debian, particularly in their Security Team.
For those people who’ve met Matt and attempted to work out where his driving motivation comes from, you may find some intriguing clues. The interview contains a series of question across many topics, the larger part being about life rather than computers. In response to whom Matt admires most, he expresses:
I admire people who relentlessly pursue their own curiosity and, in the process, challenge the rest of us to do the same. People who question what they see and explore it deeply, who are never satisfied with an incomplete answer.
If you are the type of person who is also inquisitive to the extreme, answers await you inside this interview! Could you be the next Ubuntu CTO or lead the Ubuntu Technical Board?
The full text is available on Behind Ubuntu along with several previous interviews.
Daniel Holbach (aka dholbach), one of the lead developers working in the Ubuntu Desktop team, has been speaking to BehindUbuntu.
Now, when you meet Daniel at conferences, you can compete with other people to see who knows most about him.
I’ve got my own notes here, written on my arm:
I’m sure we’ll be the best of friends!
