Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 24, 2015 @02:53AM from the depends-how-you-count dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In response to an article claiming Ubuntu didn't reach its goal of 200 million users this year — a goal set out by Mark Shuttleworth in 2011 to surpass 200 million users by 2015 — a Canonical engineer has come out to say the opposite. Dustin Kirkland, a member of Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, has come out to say there are more than one billion Ubuntu users. His billion tally though does include cloud/container instances as well as those shopping online at Wallmart, watching popular movies where the studios used Ubuntu servers, streamed from Netflix, rode with Uber, and other businesses that rely upon Ubuntu servers.

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Re:When you miss a metric... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-24 04:42 · Score: 2, Informative

packaging of the Debian kernel, the Gnome UI,

the standard ubuntu release, which most people use, hasn't used gnome as default desktop since 2010 (maverick 10.10).