by Jono Bacon | Jul 20, 2017 | Desktop, Linux, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
Recently, I posted a piece about distributions consolidating around a consistent app store. In it I mentioned Flatpak as a potential component and some people wondered why I didn’t recommend Snappy, particularly due to my Canonical heritage. To be clear (and to...
by Jono Bacon | Jul 13, 2017 | Desktop, Linux, Planet GNOME, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
When I joined Canonical in 2006, the Linux desktop world operated in a very upstream way. All distributions used the Linux kernel, all used X, and the majority shipped either GNOME, KDE, or both. The following years mixed things up a little. As various companies...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 1, 2016 | Desktop
OK, folks, I want to share a random idea that cropped up after a long conversation with Langridge a few weeks back. This is merely food for thought and designed to trigger some discussion. Today my computing experience is comprised of Ubuntu and Mac OS X. On Ubuntu I...
by Jono Bacon | Oct 10, 2015 | Desktop
Across the course of my career I have given, and continue to give, a lot of presentations at conferences all over the world. In the vast majority of them I have used LibreOffice because I like and support the project and I like my presentations being in an open format...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 7, 2013 | Desktop
Many congratulations to my friends in the [Fedora](http://fedoraproject.org/) community for your 10th anniversary! Fedora is such an important part of the wider Open Source and Free Software community and filled with many, many good people doing great work. I hope you...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 7, 2012 | Community, Desktop, Planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu
*This is a personal post and does not neccessarily represent the views of Canonical or the Ubuntu community*. Today Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and [Free Software Foundation](http://www.fsf.org) wrote a [critical...
