b. 1973, Welkom, South Africa · Founder of Canonical; "Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life" of Ubuntu
Also known as: Shuttleworth, SABDFL
Mark Shuttleworth founded Canonical and Ubuntu in 2004 — a desktop-focused Debian derivative that became one of the most widely adopted Linux distributions. Ubuntu's six-month release cadence and long-term-support releases are widely used across enterprise, cloud, and embedded systems.
Canonical funds kernel work, maintains Ubuntu, and develops the Snap packaging system.
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Related people: Ian Murdock, Linus Torvalds
Works cited in this book:
- Announcing Ubuntu 4.10 (2004)
Discussed in:
- Chapter 2: A History of Unix and Linux · The Linux Explosion: 1993-2005
