You may, by now, have heard of a little distribution called Ubuntu, unless you happen to have been in space for the past five years.
For now all you need to know is that Ubuntu is a popular offshoot of Debian, and the man behind it, Mark Shuttleworth, is considered to be a veritable Linux titan.
Mark is the dotcom millionaire founder of Canonical, first patron of KDE and the self-appointed benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) of Ubuntu. Linux Format magazine risked being crushed by his (rumoured) hordes of robotic minions to ask him a few questions.
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