From an Ubuntu CD to the Agentic AI Foundation
Twenty-one years ago, a free Ubuntu CD showed up in my mailbox.
It was 2005. Canonical’s ShipIt program would mail you Ubuntu discs at no cost, so I ordered one, booted it on a secondary computer I had at the time, built a LAMP stack, and ran the “famous 5-minute” WordPress install. I had no idea where that would lead.
Today, October 14, 2026, the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is publishing my writing about MCP, AI, and NetClaw on its official blog.
Published on the official AAIF blog
I Saw Something in MCP. Then I Spent 18 Months Building It. ↗
By John Capobianco · October 14, 2026 · Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project.
For someone who learned Linux from a CD in the mail, that one is hard to put into words. It’s a genuine personal honour, and a real milestone for the NetClaw project.
In February, NetClaw was an idea, a repo, and a lobster. On October 6, it was on stage at MCP Dev Summit Toronto with 233 skills and 173 MCP integrations in the presentation’s catalogue. Now, that story has a home on the AAIF blog. 🦞
None of that happens alone.
To the creators in the community who build with it, break it, and send the pull requests: this is yours.
To the maintainers who keep it moving: thank you for every review and every late night.
To the enterprises who saw the promise early and got involved: thank you for the trust.
To Itential, for supporting this open-source work from the very beginning and every day since: I couldn’t have taken it this far without you.
Open source gave me my start in 2005. Getting to give something back to it in 2026 is pretty special.
The network is becoming part of the agentic world. We’re still early.
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