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Mark Shuttleworth
Personal blog · markshuttleworth.com/archivessystemsprogramming
Mark Shuttleworth's personal blog at markshuttleworth.com covers systems and programming. Since 2007, 134 different Hacker News readers have linked it 164 times, most often “Losing graciously”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his blog as the primary source for Ubuntu announcements: Unity, Mir, the move to systemd, and the Amazon search lens.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter says the post explains that the Unity search results are not ads, and tells readers to read it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Losing graciously12 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2014-02-14
- Amazon search results in the Dash9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2012-09-23
- Unity on Wayland7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-11-04
- Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-01-24
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to be named Trusty Tahr4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-10-18
- Beavering away at the brilliantly bionic 18.04 LTS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-10-24
- Mistakes made and addressed3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-10
- Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-09
- Ubuntu 11.10 named Oneiric Ocelot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-07
- /archives/202 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-08-26
What Hacker News says?
For those playing along, Jeff is heavily involved in the GNOME project and thus have a strong opinion on all these things. Much has been written on the indicator spat and the tension between GNOME and Canonical, and it seems that's there's not and end to be seen of it. Mark Shuttleworth has some thoughts (from the other side of the coin) on his blog here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/654 I'm not going to…
Comment linking /archives/654
on “Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)”Submitted Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates as a story · 650 points
HN discussionAnd Ubuntu followed Debian. Mark Shuttleworth called it "losing graciously".[1] [1] https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
Comment linking /archives/1316
on “Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective”Submitted Losing graciously as a story · 513 points
HN discussionFrom Mark's post: "We’re confident we’ll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, so this is not a transition that needs to reset the world of desktop free software. Nor is it a transition everyone needs to make at the same time: for the same reason we’ll keep investing in the 2D experience on Ubuntu despite also believing that Unity, with all it’s GL dependencies, is the best int…
Comment linking /archives/551
on “Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland”Submitted Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu as a story · 361 points
HN discussionThis is the actual announcement by Shuttleworth: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551
Comment linking /archives/551
on “Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland”Submitted Introducing the Fan – simpler container networking as a story · 142 points
HN discussion> 1 ) I was also under that impression, but coming to think about it who created that expectation, the community or Canonical? I don't know. Mark Shuttleworth created that expectation, when he made a blog post saying Unity would be switching to Wayland: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551
Comment linking /archives/551
on “Ubuntu will switch from X window server to Mir”Submitted Mistakes made and addressed as a story · 123 points
HN discussionMark Shuttleworth had trouble landing in the US in a private plane -- despite doing it all the time. Reinforces the 'get the paperwork right' advice. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/43
Comment linking /archives/43
on “My U.S. Border Nightmare”Submitted Tribalism is the enemy within as a story · 102 points
HN discussionIt was an open request to the community from his blog post. I emailed him first, that's how conversation started. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/?s=government
Comment linking /?s=government
on “What I learned while securing Ubuntu (2015)”Submitted Unity: a lightweight netbook interface for Ubuntu as a story · 92 points
HN discussionUnfortunately Mark Shuttleworth didn't stick with a proper decision not to create a rift: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 > We considered and spoke with several proprietary options, on the basis that they might be persuaded to open source their work for a new push, and we evaluated the cost of building a new display manager, informed by the lessons learned in Wayland. We came to the conclusion that any…
Comment linking /archives/551
on “Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"”Submitted Amazon search results in the Dash as a story · 89 points
HN discussionThis one: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1295 Mir is really important work. When lots of competitors attack a project on purely political grounds, you have to wonder what THEIR agenda is. At least we know now who belongs to the Open Source Tea Party And to put all the hue and cry into context: Mir is relevant for approximately 1% of all developers, just those who think about shell development. Every app de…
Comment linking /archives/1295
on “Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"”Submitted Window indicators for Ubuntu ("windicators") as a story · 69 points
HN discussionMartin refers to http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1295 , I think. He wrote about it in http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/10/thoughts-about... . It is about the Mir-Support of KWin/KDE (Martin is the current KWin developer) - while KDE doesn't want to support Mir right now, and says it is about technical reasons, Shuttleworth suggested it is a political thing, which Martin didn't like at all. Seems l…
Comment linking /archives/1295
on “Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"”Submitted Single menu bar for Ubuntu as a story · 69 points
HN discussionI believe he must be referring to this: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1295
Comment linking /archives/1295
on “Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"”Submitted (Ubuntu) 11.04, a leap forward as a story · 68 points
HN discussionI find this spyware by default as wrong as Stallman. I dont want my machine to send anything anywhere without me explicitly telling it to do so. What I find even more frightening is Mark Shuttelworths view of this: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182 "Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root." Looks like he gets the issues of privacy and trust completely wrong. Imagine catching your cleaning lady reading your dia…
Comment linking /archives/1182
on “Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?”Submitted Fixing the Internet for confidentiality and security as a story · 65 points
HN discussionThat actually isn't what he said at all. He did not say "you should trust us". He said "you do trust us". There is a considerable difference. Here is the full question and answer. Q: Why are you telling Amazon what I am searching for? A: We are not telling Amazon what you are searching for. Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with…
Comment linking /archives/1182
on “Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches”Submitted Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be named the Natty Narwhal as a story · 59 points
HN discussion> Use Super-A. You can tell Unity exactly what you want to search. And in future you’ll be able to do that from the home lens, too, more easily than the current Lens Bar at the bottom of the Dash. From http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182 It sounds like they're working to expand the search functionality with users' best interests in mind, not adding advertisements as everyone seems to think. > it is being d…
Comment linking /archives/1182
on “Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches”Submitted Ubuntu vs RHEL in enterprise computing as a story · 57 points
HN discussionAs I pointed out way back when,[1] Mark Shuttleworth really missed the opportunity to name an Ubuntu release the Tenacious Tardigrade. [1] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1295#comment-403210
Comment linking /archives/1295
on “Tardigrades are so tough, they can survive outer space”Submitted Mark Shuttleworth on “GNOME vs Canonical vs KDE” as a story · 53 points
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