One of those intetesting announcements:
Be careful if you explore the rest of the site.... El Reg has a.... quirky English sense of humour. 
In the wake of the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, Mark Shuttleworth - the founder of the Ubuntu project and the chief executive officer of Canonical, the commercial entity behind Ubuntu - hosted a conference call with the press and analyst community. And in that call, Shuttleworth, who is not afraid to shell out money for a good cause - such as the $20m he paid to be the second tourist in space, via a Russian Soyuz mission - made it clear that he is perfectly happy to fund Ubuntu until it gets on its own financial two feet.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...tu_commitment/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...tu_commitment/