{"id":233,"date":"2014-10-20T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:06:21","slug":"ubuntu-is-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justdave.net\/dave\/2014\/10\/20\/ubuntu-is-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu is 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw “Happy 10th Birthday, Ubuntu”<\/a> go by in my feed today…<\/p>\n

Today is the 10th anniversary of Ubuntu<\/a>‘s first release.\u00c2\u00a0 This is slightly nostalgic as I was employed by them at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 I was actually the very first employee of MRS Virtual Development (the legal name of the entity at the time), Robert Collins (mentioned in the above-linked article) being the second. The first two things Mark wanted in his company were a good bug tracker and a good source control system.\u00c2\u00a0 My involvement with Mozilla as a volunteer at the time is actually how I came to be involved with it, as I’d been heavily involved with the Bugzilla<\/a> bug tracking system at that point. Robert had been heavily involved with GNU Arch<\/a>, an up-and-coming source code management system which was eventually forked by Canonical to become Bazaar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The biggest thing I remember about my time working for Canonical<\/a> (as the corporate entity eventually became known) was that I spent 2 weeks at a time in London approximately every 2 months.\u00c2\u00a0 I spent almost a quarter of that year in London.\u00c2\u00a0 This, of course, was pretty hard on me since it was hard being away from my family so much.<\/p>\n

Although I thought the Ubuntu OS was a fantastic idea, and loved the way it was being built (and I still use it to this day on most of my computers), in the end, I didn’t really fit in well with the other people working on it.\u00c2\u00a0 Almost everyone else Mark had hired to work on it came from a Debian background, which I had had almost zero involvement with prior to this experience, and the culture was very different from anything I’d ever dealt with before.\u00c2\u00a0 I much preferred the culture among the volunteer community at Mozilla.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, Firefox was released about 3 weeks later, and the Mozilla Foundation suddenly had money as a result.\u00c2\u00a0 I left Canonical and was hired by Mozilla the day before Firefox 1.0 released, and I am still at Mozilla today.\u00c2\u00a0 This means I will also be celebrating my 10th anniversary working at Mozilla in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw “Happy 10th Birthday, Ubuntu” go by in my feed today… Today is the 10th anniversary of Ubuntu‘s first release.\u00c2\u00a0 This is slightly nostalgic as I was employed by them at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 I was actually the very first employee of MRS Virtual Development (the legal name of the entity at the time), Robert … <\/p>\n

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