Ubuntu's Bug #1 report closed after almost nine years

Open-source advocate Mark Shuttleworth closed Ubuntu's seriocomic Bug #1 report on Thursday after leaving it open nearly nine years. The move heralded a major shift in rhetoric from the leader of the world's most popular Linux distribution. Shuttleworth, a former Debian developer, founded Canonical Ltd.in 2004 to work on Ubuntu, at that time a brand-new new Linux variant. Before the launch, however, he discovered a highly complex problem with the fledgling OS with this August 20, 2004 bug report...