Linux

The interview is in english

TIL

• Mark was a Debian contributor
• His goal was to make Linux succeed like Dropbox and Netflix
• He acknowledges how ChromeOS and Android (both newer than Ubuntu afaik) shaped the Linux Desktop
• ChromeOS uses upstart, the init system that Canonical created
• Canonical is smaller than SUSE
• Mark considers Ubuntu to be more open than Fedora because they have flatpak in their repos (well, Snaps arent sandboxed outside of Apparmor, so that just makes sense I guess?)
• Ubuntu kept in contact with GNOME while switching to Unity, so they could easily fall back
• Microsofted lured in Linux devs with money, to make licensed software
• The cloud department in Microsoft was pretty progressive, using Linux anyways
• Azurelinux is a competitor against Ubuntu