Ok, eventually I am 2 months early, but I was appointed an Ubuntu Member on 2005-06-15…
but I was starting earlier with Ubuntu Packaging…
Anyhow, I already wrote my praise on Google+ .
So just to make this public:
Thanks for 15.04 and all the other releases before (especially the LTS ones).
I think during the last 10 Years, Ubuntu made a difference towards the Linux Community,
When I joined this journey, Ubuntu was just another distribution, with a SABDFL who was pumping a lot of
money into his free project. I guess it was his private money, and the whole Linux community should be so
thankful to this Geek.
Without Marks engagement, I don't think that Linux on the Desktop is so known
to the wider public.
Don't get me wrong, we had SuSE, we had Red Hat, we had Debian (and other smaller Distros), but most of the
global players today were famous for the involvement on the servers (Well, not SuSE because they were focused on Desktop
before they lost track and made the wrong turn no I am not saying openSuSE this is a different story)
10 Years ago, actually 10 years and a couple of months, a small group of people were working on an integrated desktop environment,
based on GNOME. And they were right to do so. Those people, .. cntd
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