Carla Schroder of Linux Today published an essay recently dealing with the low level of female participation in open-source projects.  Although the article doesn’t deal with Ubuntu in particular, it nonetheless prompted some thoughts about the role of women in the world’s most popular Linux distribution.

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One of the greatest problems hindering desktop Linux is its diversity.  With 800+ distributions, dozens of user interfaces and lots of different applications that do the same things, it’s no secret that the Linux world is convoluted for developers and users.  But if Mark Shuttleworth has his way, the free-software community might become a little saner.

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The old debate about lack of standardization among different Linux platforms flared up on Slashdot this weekend.  It’s a complicated topic, with complex arguments both for and against greater consolidation among Linux programming interfaces and distributions.  It’s also something that would be a nonissue if developers could find the courage to declare certain subsets of the Linux community more worthy than others of support, based simply on their size.

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