Mark Shuttleworth made news in 2002 when he fulfilled a lifelong ambition and became the first South African to travel into space, paying $20 million to be a civilian cosmonaut on an eight-day flight ...

Canonical Ltd., the commercial backer of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, is not yet turning a profit, but founder Mark Shuttleworth said during a teleconference today that he is prepared to ...

In a twist that is sure to raise eyebrows and cause no end of neckbeard scratching, Canonical CEO and Ubuntu's de facto spiritual leader, Mark Shuttleworth, has announced that key parts of Ubuntu ...

Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical Ltd and founder of the Ubuntu project, will be chatting live with Ars Premier subscribers today, Tuesday, February 2 at 1PM CST.<BR><BR ...

In a bombshell blog post today (via OMG Ubuntu), Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, announced the company will stop investing in its "Unity" user interface for Linux and ...

In the past few months, Ubuntu seems to have experienced a serious drop in popularity. It can be said that Linux distributions rise and fall when something new becomes the latest and greatest, but ...

During his OSCON keynote, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth proclaimed that Linux is the platform of the future. Ars takes a close look at his plans for the future of Ubuntu and evaluates his ...

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has reportedly invested $1 million in Inktank, a Startup providing enterprise-level support for the Ceph Distributed Storage System. Ceph redefines storage as an ...

Now that Windows 7 is out the door, Canonical -- the distributor of rival Linux-based operating system Ubuntu -- is eager to engage in "real head-to-head competition" with Microsoft, according to ...