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Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the head of Canonical, the commercial entity behind the popular linux distribution, is currently making his rounds in the States.  Yesterday he was quite busy,  taking the stage at both the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as well as at  LinuxCon up in Portland Oregon.

Today he popped by Dell here in Austin to chat.  I grabbed him for a few minutes right before lunch. Here is the result:

Some of the topics Mark tackles:

• The release yesterday of Dell’s Mini netbook with Ubuntu Moblin Remix – Developer Edition. (More details on the release from the Dell blog.)
• Mark’s keynote yesterday at Linuxcon and the themes of cadence, quality and design.
• His kerfluffle with the Debian community around release schedules.
• The cloud-related goals for next month’s Ubuntu 9.10 release, Karmic Koala:
  • To be able to deploy your own cloud across 5-10 servers in 15 mins to an hour
  • Be able to enable private clouds that are completely EC2 compatible
  • Ability to create a library of virtual appliances that will deploy on EC2 or private clouds
• The announcement earlier this week of the 10.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release named “Lucid Lynx.”
• Mark’s thoughts on Windows 7 or as he calls it, “the wonderful Service Pack for Vista.”
• How long until profitability.

Pau for now…