Hoping to succeed in a difficult task, a software start-up led by former MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson plans to sell a version of Linux designed to run popular Windows programs. Stephen Shankland ...

You had a lot of options when you were thinking about another start-up. Why did you choose this path? I tried to avoid it. But I realized that I needed to be busy and active. I'm fascinated by Linux, ...

It was an ugly fight at times. On one side you had Ubuntu favoring its Upstart program to replace the old Unix/Linux init daemon, which oversees the operating system's start-up and shutdown processes.