Ubuntu Project Founder
Call him Microsoft's worst nightmare come to life. Kind of the Freddy Krueger to Microsoft's unsuspecting teenager in a horror move for the high tech set. Shuttleworth founded the Ubuntu project in 2004, and has quickly guided the Linux desktop distribution to increasing popularity.
Earlier in 2007, the organization that spearheads Ubuntu development, Canonical, announced the first major Tier 1 PC vendor -- Dell -- had agreed to pre-load Ubuntu Linux onto desktops and notebooks. At year's end, the "Gutsy Gibbon" version of Ubuntu had achieved significant measures of driver and application support.
Among other things, Shuttleworth is one of the industry's few space travelers. According to his official biography on Canonical's web site, "In April 2002 Mark flew in space, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station."
