Despite my usual rants re Linux in the desktop, I like Ubuntu. I’ve got to meet a lot of people from Canonical — the company behind Ubuntu — over the years and they all seem terrific people, which is saying a lot coming from me.
Mark Shuttleworth writes about this year’s Ubuntu Live event and what he’d like to see there–
I’d be particularly interested in talks that describe:
- large-scale government deployments of Ubuntu on the desktop (there have now been several)
- specialist deployments, for example high-performance computing clusters, or vertical market solutions
- virtualisation-based deployments where Ubuntu is the host or the guest platform
- large-scale server farms for hosting or web edge-of-the-network deployments
- appliances based on Ubuntu
With the exception of the first topic, the rest seems very appropriate and interesting to me as well. As I said, I really like Ubuntu. I still don’t think Linux belongs in the desktop, but if anyone can do it, it’s Ubuntu, for they seem to understand the concept of simplicity that appeals to desktop users.
Ubuntu Live 2008 will happen in July and since it’s going to be in Portland, I might just drop by.[tags]ubuntu, linux, ubuntu live[/tags]
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