Mark Shuttleworth keynote summary

[jmak]

Linux Desktop: It must become art

Can we not emulate, but blow past Apple, in terms of delivering a user
experience?
Linux desktop has to be art.
It's not a mad crusade. We need beautiful, free software that is art.
To survive in a Web world, you need something that's attractive.
It has to be profoundly usable.
That's the challenge for the Linux desktop for the next 2 years.

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