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Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users — Before Lucid
darthcamaro writes "It's always a challenge to try and figure out how many users a particular Linux distro has — but Canonical is now providing a new figure for Ubuntu that is 50 percent more than what they were claiming just 18 months ago. 'We have no phone home or registration process, so it's always a guesstimate. But based on the same methodology that we came up with for the 2008 number, our present belief is that it's somewhere north of 12 million users at the moment,' Chris Kenyon, vice president for OEM at Canonical, told InternetNews.com. Just in case you were wondering, Fedora still claims more — actually almost double, at 24 million."
Ubuntu: Debian unstable + Shuttleworth's "pick of the day" apps and themes
My god, Ubuntu has become Windows! ;)
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
"at least we're more secure than Windows, right?"
In the default configuration, yes. However, last I checked, Ubuntu does not ship with SELinux, and so if you are looking for data security, Windows wins (note that there are other distros, like RHEL, that ship with SELinux, and are tied with Windows for multilevel security applications).
Really, the days of bashing Windows on security are long past. The users are a far greater problem than the software, and that will not change as they use different OSes.
Palm trees and 8