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Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users — Before Lucid

Posted by timothy on from the or-is-that-a-lucid-dream dept.

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."

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  1. Re:NTP-servers... by icebraining · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm almost certain that it defaults to "no", you have to click the "yes" button to participate.

    It does, at least in Debian.

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  2. You want real statistics ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the hit count for operating system from Wikimedia:

    http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm

    Linux has a 1.65% market share and of that share Ubuntu has 0.71%. Ubuntu has approximately 43% market share among Linux users, which by a very large margin makes it the most popular distro.

  3. Re:Sadly by oakgrove · · Score: 4, Informative

    Don't know if you've noticed, but if you type sudo su - and hit enter, you now have superuser access.

    Actually, no. You can escalate your privileges to the superuser only if your account is configured to allow for that. You can easily configure every account on the machine to not be escalatable and just use one account for admin tasks. Secondly, you have to type in your password so, no, you don't just "hit enter".

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