Ubuntu leader Mark Shuttleworth has during a session of questions to let us know that he thinks that Ubuntu is the largest distribution will continue, despite the rise of Linux Mint. According to Shuttleworth should Canonical have to continue to innovate.
Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, congratulates in the irc held interview the development team behind Linux Mint. This Ubuntu derivative distribution on DistroWatch the top end of Ubuntu inherited. This would be mainly due to migrators. Particularly with the new Unity interface that Ubuntu since version 11.04 has been implemented, came much criticism.
Shuttleworth has let us know that he is happy to see that there are good, on Ubuntu-based distros popular, but the millionaire says that he expects Ubuntu in the coming years, the most popular Linux distribution will continue. Also, the Ubuntu-leader that while there are legitimate criticisms to be delivered in the direction of the open-source OS is taking, but that there are also many critique is where Canonical or not. Shuttleworth states: “Users want a platform of the future, not a past. We are working on and we do that with care.”
As examples of innovations indicates Shuttleworth at the Ubuntu One-cloud platform and various modifications in the Unity interface has been implemented, such as the focus on full screen-applicatievensters and overlay scrollbars. Also considers Shuttleworth that Ubuntu a chance to its platform to expand into tablets and smartphones. A condition would however be that there is a lot of attention is given to refine the design and develop a completely open platform.