Ubuntu Turns 7

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 20, 2011 @01:53AM from the lots-of-work-and-much-success dept.

sfcrazy writes "Ubuntu, the world's most popular GNU/Linux based operating system is celebrating its 7th year today. Ubuntu was first released on 20 October 2004. In these 7 years Ubuntu has changed the GNU/Linux desktop segment by making it more useful for ordinary user." Besides the work that Ubuntu has done to popularize and polish the Linux desktop, and to present a humane entry point for non-guru users, it's provided a base for many other distributions (like Mint and Puppy) and helped make people realize just how powerful is the Debian infrastructure that Ubuntu itself launched from.

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Popularity by TechLA · 2011-10-20 01:53 · Score: 0, Troll

popularize ... the Linux desktop
According to StatCounter, Linux has a market share of 0.75%.

In comparison:
Windows: 85.00%
Mac OSX: 6.32%
iOS: 2.36%
Symbian: 2.15%
Android: 1.48%
GNU Linux: 0.75%
BlackBerry OS: 0.73%

I wouldn't call it popular just yet... Besides, I think Red Hat based distros like Fedora are much better than those based on Debian, and are the ones that should be introduced to new users. Fedora is way better than Ubuntu.

On another interesting note, it seems like Windows 7 just surpassed WinXP as the most popular OS, they're both holding around 40% market share. So yeah, Linux still needs some work, considering Windows 7 got there in just two years and XP was a hugely popular OS..