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Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere
prisoninmate writes: To celebrate the launch of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, due for release later this month, on April 21, Canonical put together an interesting infographic, showing the world how popular Ubuntu is. From the infographic, it looks like there are over 60 million Ubuntu images launched by Docker users, 14 million Vagrant images of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from HashiCorp, 20 million launches of Ubuntu instances during 2015 in public and private clouds, as well as bare metal, and 2 million new Ubuntu Cloud instances launched in November 2015. Ubuntu is used on the International Space Station, on the servers of popular online services like Netflix, Snapchat, Pinterest, Reddit, Dropbox, PayPal, Wikipedia, and Instagram, in Google, Tesla, George Hotz, and Uber cars. It is also employed at Bloomberg, Weta Digital and Walmart, at the Brigham Young University to control the Mars Rover, and it is even behind the largest supercomputer in the world.
One more desktop install reporting in! They laugh...then you win.
humms, I wonder how they knew all that... Linux telemetry anyone?
there is much fragmentation with systemd and some other issues which imo make ubuntu's parent company ripe for the picking.
look at the Moonlight plugin, where is it now? this is what I feel will happen to Ubuntu and eventually WINE and some other distros in the top ten.
Nooooooooooo
still swallow stderr! That makes it hard as hell to troubleshoot start-up problems.
You might be better off with a waffle iron.
This is what irks me about /. Even though Ubuntu is an overall fantastic flavor of Linux, if you read the comments here, you'd get the impression that it's more loathed than a Microsoft product.
I personally have had very positive experiences with Ubuntu, and have helped quite a few 'non-nerds' start using it on their computers, when Windows and Mac weren't good fits. I own a computer shop, and probably install Ubuntu about once a month -- it's not leading the pack by any means, but it's a very viable option. The simplicity of the distro, along with the fantastic userbase to provide support, have really helped make it the Linux of choice for the average consumer, IMHO.
or the virtual year of the Linux desktop?
Java is installed in over 3 billion devices in the world.
For those unfamiliar, the previous poster may be referring to Red Hat. They provide ten-year support. Their tech support phone number is 1-888-733-4281 .
Ps, like 3ware support, Red Hat provides actual techs. They won't read a script asking you to reboot three times, then tell you to re-install from scratch, losing all of your data.
> MS should buy them out not just partner with them
If MS started offering Ubuntu long ago and not just now, they'd be rich by now!
Ring me when they have 10 year support cycles and someone I can actually ring when something goes whacky.....
Hahahaha! Oh, wait, you were serious?
If you're thinking of those I'm thinking of, "extended support" isn't really support, and "someone I can actually ring" appears to be a euphemism for "find an MVP and roll the dice". By the way, good luck on that phone thing if you're outside the US.
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You'd think in year 2016 basic functionality of IPv6 would work on Ubuntu, such as having a simple DHCPv6 client work properly. NOPE!!!!
I am fighting this bug here at this very moment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/isc-dhcp/+bug/1447715
"dhclient -6: Can't bind to dhcp address: Cannot assign requested address"
No joke, my Ubuntu 15.10 cannot grab a IPv6 address via DHCP.
How do I know it's not my DHCP server? Because my Windows laptop grabbed a stateful DHCPv6-assigned address without me even asking or lifting a finger. This is on Windows 7, a 6+ year old OS. It just worked like magic there.
Just seems to me they made a few marginal improvements to debian and colored it orange. I seriously don't get it.
Serenity now, insanity later.
It's used by George Hotz? So what, thats one random ass statistic.
Shove up on your ass any desire upon me. Don't need to show yourself.
Canonical put together [...] showing the world how popular Ubuntu is.
Well. Duh. Stopped right there.
I'm not experiencing the problem that you describe. I'm using PostgreSQL on FreeBSD.
The article linked to is blog spam with an ugly JPEG version of the infographic. The original PNG infographic is here: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/07/ubuntu-is-everywhere/
As a long time Cygwin user (hey everyone has bills to pay) I was curious to check out the Ubuntu support included in Windows Subsystem for Linux worked so I installed the latest Windows Insiders build and enabled the feature. So far it seems to be able to do everything I've ever needed Cygwin to do and support for Apt is much nicer than re-running the Cygwin installer every time I need to update a package. Its not perfect but so far I have no major complaints. My biggest concern is that more people having access to SSH will cause IT departments to introduce firewall rules even more restrictive than they already do.
they're starting to sound like java marketing.....
who gives a fuck, seriously.
Download virtualbox and go to distrowatch.com and play with several is my suggestion.
The *untu's began as third world linux and Redhat/Fedora have sucked since Redhat 8. Redhat 7.3 was the last decent version before they got dollar signs in their eyes.
The only linuxes I would avoid are the *untu's and Redhats. They are the Microsoft wannabe's.
(you can bump into any old school linux user on the street and they will tell you the same shit)
> MS should buy them out not just partner with them
If MS started offering Ubuntu long ago and not just now, they'd be rich by now!
SQL Server on Linux, and now Bash on Windows... MS-Linux is coming.
Here's my conspiracy theory: they annoyed everyone with Metro, then Windows 10, just to pave the way for MS-Linux. Brilliant.
lucm, indeed.
not with Tails they can't.
oh and Tails now has:
apt-transport-tor
"APT transport for anonymous package downloads via Tor
Provides support in APT for downloading packages anonymously via the Tor network.
APT already includes mechanisms for guaranteeing the authenticity of the packages you download.
Install apt-transport-tor, edit your sources.list to include only tor://
URLs, and you can make it very difficult for anyone intercepting your
network traffic to be able to tell that you are installing Debian packages,
or which packages you are installing."
Agreed. And they do support everything that's in their repo with fast response time.
Thanks to RHEL I'm getting lazy lately, it's often easier to open a ticket than to STFW to figure things out.
lucm, indeed.
Long-term support is truly important. You don't want your industrial machine to have upgrades and be quickly fixed when needed. Let's not talk about corporates, who care for this for the wrong reasons.
Wonder if my personal VM running Owncloud (which is based upon Ubuntu) is showing up on their infographic?
I could tell you why it sucks (and most everything else in computing la la land), but that isn't the point.
Yes, it's pretty good for your paying n00bs, so it's good for you. But at the same time the nerd can still see it can obviously be better, perhaps it isn't nearly good enough for its purported job even if it is the best available. Same thing with redmond, and they throw their weight around lots more than canonical does.
Now tell me, is this a news site for n00bs? It may well be, but the tagline says something else. Is this what irks you?
Infographic on /. , now I've seen them all. This place is devolving
I noticed that Cadence shows support for Ubuntu LTS growing up to 2017, when every tool shall support an old version of Ubuntu, LTS 14.4. Bear in mind that the other supported OS are RHEL and SLES, both costly versions of GNU/Linux distros that give you support. After all, support is what enterprises like to have.
It will probably be 2018 before Ubuntu LTS 16.4 begins to show in the EDA roadmap.
They already do MS-Linux... haven't You heard of Microsoft's switch OS which is a Linux ?
They probably realized that they can't compete on their own system (Windows) and are now moving slowly to Linux. They can't compete because Windows is PITA to move from x86 to other architectures and because Windows is expensive to run (it is inefficient - yes it is better than ever before but it is still far behind).
They have moved development tools and their flagship (that IS MS SQL server, whatever you like it or not), I would say that the next product moving to Linux will be BizTalk and the next again Exchange. They need to make their enterprise products available on Linux because enterprises are moving their backend systems to Linux.
BTW. HOW did they get Oracles top Linux guy to change to a company with next to none Linux presence??
- "Hi, this is Satya Nadella calling from Microsoft, we are building a new Linux division would you like to be top executive in that division"
The problem is called fragmentation. It will always keep Linux from dominating the desktop. Add to that a shit ton of nerd in fighting. Heck just read the comments to get an example.
We have a small holiday rental property in which there is free wifi and a Ubuntu PC. This suits us well - particularly the PC as we do not need to worry about what is downloaded and who looks at it. Wifi is of course another issue, but this thread is Ubuntu, and we are very happy. I suspect that some of the naysayers either have needs other than ours or have not looked into needs such as ours. My 2C, keep the change!
Compare how a linux desktop was 10 years ago and how it is today. Like it or not, Ubuntu has driven most of the chages/controversies. I like to use it. Has it's issues, but overal, I realy enjoy it. I have much more complains from Gnome, for dumbing down too much, than from the Unity interface. I think most Slashdot users are too conservative to accept some changes and are allways complaining and acepting WORSE alternatives because they look "like it used to be". This is the problem with Slashdot. No forward thinking anymore.
Math is beautiful... e^(pi*i)+1=0
Where is he getting these numbers? How are they tracking these installs and how are they able to tell how many instances are in containers? How does Canonical know that an Ubuntu instance is running inside a container or virtualization layer?
I find their facts odd.. I wonder if somehow it includes Mint installs, because I keep checking Distrowatch and interest in Ubuntu always seems to be below Mint and Debian.
To get this data, Ubuntu has to be reporting usage data back to their servers. I thought we all hated that and its an invasion of privacy and how dare they and fuck Obama?
Seriously? THAT confuses you? Are you alright? I mean how on earth did you manage to find slashdot.org and post this! How come you didn't confuse it with reddit or youtube or whatever. Or its IP address! OMG! Which one! Version 4? Version 6?
SQL Server on Linux, and now Bash on Windows... MS-Linux is coming.
Here's my conspiracy theory: they annoyed everyone with Metro, then Windows 10, just to pave the way for MS-Linux. Brilliant.
I did a MLK parody of "I have a dream" a few months ago, when I dreamt that one day we'd all be united under Unix.
It would be awesome for great levels of awesomenitude.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
You're thinking Microsoft. He's thinking RedHat.
Judging by his username, he's probably a sock puppet of known abusive troll Dogcow..
The infographic claims Netflix runs Ubuntu, but it's widely known they run FreeBSD.
They can't compete because Windows is PITA to move from x86 to other architectures and because Windows is expensive to run (it is inefficient - yes it is better than ever before but it is still far behind).
Windows runs out of the box with a fairly good driver coverage of all components and peripherals on pretty much any mainstream computer. Call it what you want but that's pretty impressive. Of course they blackmail OEMs and shove tons of useless drivers in there but still.
Give me a mystery server and no internet access, and I'd bet a dollar that besides OpenSuse there's only Windows that will install properly on that thing. Anything else will require a driver treasure hunt.
lucm, indeed.
You're a fucking bitch for degrading Doctor King's work by relating it to your little pet OS.
How does one know Ubuntu is everywhere? Does every copy of it phone home every time it boots??
You're a fucking bitch for degrading Doctor King's work by relating it to your little pet OS.
Mighty sensitive little snowflake aren't we, precious?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Every year or so, I get the urge to replace Xubuntu with Debian on my desktop and development systems. Sadly, it just doesn't make sense to do so. Ubuntu still has a few huge advantages over Debian. In particular:
Ubuntu's bug tracking system is far more convenient than Debian's, provides richer categorization and relation tools, and integrates with upstream trackers. I waste less time when I have to report problems, and since more people are sharing knowledge in launchpad, I also waste less time on diagnostics and fixes. Average users find it more approachable, too, and can often use it to find a workarounds for problems that they need solved before the next Debian release cycle crawls around.
Ubuntu's personal package archive system is both a public build farm and an open software repository. This means I can share custom software packages with others, with no bureaucratic overhead, on any release schedule I choose, through a channel that's extraordinarily easy for users to install, with integration into the standard system update process. Oh, and I don't have to set up build environments for multiple architectures (or in some cases, any build environment at all). Of course, all of this also benefits non-developers, by giving them access to a lot of software that isn't part of the Debian archive.
Last time I checked, Ubuntu still had far better support for certain important hardware components, like my graphics card. I'm an advanced user, so I could probably jump through the hoops to get proprietary drivers working in Debian, but most people don't have that kind of knowledge or the time/inclination to develop it. I wish there was a way around this by simply choosing different hardware, but there simply is no good substitute for certain proprietary devices. (Linux gamers can either use nVidia hardware with the closed driver, or be stuck with inferior performance.)
Despite Ubuntu making some dumb decisions and pissing me off at times, it honestly has done a lot to advance linux. I'd like to switch to Debian, but honestly, it would just make my life harder. I hope it catches up soon.
Do you just run apt-get upgrade with cron?
On a thousand machines?
For RHEL et.al, there's the tools around The Foreman. For Ubuntu, there's landscape - but it costs so much that I could use RHEL right away - and RHEL is much better. And The Foreman is open-source, can be deployed on-premise.
I hate that there is no real official documentation beyond a few alibi-pages that assume you're running a desktop. My co-workers tell me that I can google any problem and find a solution by some guy, somewhere - but my experience is that it's either incomplete, doesn't go to the root of the problem or is intended for an outdated release (multiple items can apply).
It may work most of the time - but when it doesn't finding the problem is really difficult (mostly because nobody has really bothered to document how a "modern" linux-system with systemd works and how little of traditional unix-knowledge still applies) - and this really doesn't encourage good system design but rather hacks upon hacks, where somebody finds something in some blog that appears to work.
RHEL actually has useful documentation. So does FreeBSD. Maybe got to do with the fact that those people know what they're doing.
All this lunacy about Desktop-linux completely clouds the fact that Ubuntu doesn't have the tools to actually manage servers at scale. I don't give a fuck about the fact that it's easy to install. I install my FreeBSD systems once and then migrate them to new releases over years, until the hardware gives in or the customer quits - and installing FreeBSD actually takes less time.
Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
Is there really that much fragmentation. Or just a small group of whiners. While the rest who are using Ubentu for a desktop system really don't care.
Sure you can use Ubuntu as a mission critical server, but there are better distributions for that.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
I can 100% respect this post. It's dead on. Debian takes a bit of love to be usable. But, once you've got Debian into your personal Nirvana State, nothing else really compares.
"I have a dream that my four little computers will one day function in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their screens but by the content of their character sets."
Humour motherfucker do you speak it!?!?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Yeah I dig Ubuntu. For all of the things they do that make some people displeased, they have come a long way and their distro is pretty stable and fun to use. It doesn't get in my way, it does what I want it to do when I want it to do it and there are no significant barriers to me doing most work on it.
These days, the only thing that makes me sad is that the Unity3D Linux builds aren't quite up to date with the Windows ones so if I open a project in Windows I can't edit it on my Ubuntu laptop.
You obviously do not the definition of architecture...
It is like OTHER CPU than Intel-compatible... like Sparc, Power, ARM or MIPS.
You do know that there are OTHER CPUs than Intel compatible ?
Windows used to run on MIPS, PowerPC and many others, but Microsoft gave up on supporting those 15 years ago. Do you now why? Because nobody fucking cares. How the fuck can the fact that Windows no longer runs on MIPS prevent Microsoft from "competing" with Linux? You'll tell me that the 8 organizations who bought MIPS or SPARC servers this year decided to use Debian for their x86 mail servers specifically because they figure they'd maybe need to move things around? Or maybe they plan on using the machines where they run their weather or boson collision simulations as an extra node in their Drupal cluster so the social committee's intranet site has better fault tolerance?
Fucking stupid.
See, cpu architecture portability is the kind of edge case that only serves for mental masturbation and has no practical impact on reality. If you want to promote Linux, do everyone a favor and don't bring up this point again. There's plenty of convincing reasons why Linux is superior to Windows without bringing out laughable scenarios like yours.
lucm, indeed.
We're all smart, and some of us got quite rich. Linux only!
If you look around in a modern datacenter you'll see Linux everywhere, including all that hardware - and there is a lot of it - which is not x86 based servers, or servers at all, and couldn't possibly run Windows.
Windows used to run on MIPS, PowerPC and many others, but Microsoft gave up on supporting those 15 years ago.
Yes and that worked out really well for them when it came to dominating the ARM-based smartphone and tablet market.
Yeah those 300 million installs have really pissed users *rolls eyes*
Nobody argued with Linux. But please tell me the last time you've seen a MIPS or SPARC server in a modern data center with your own eyes, as opposed to, say, x86 ones.
Outside of academia or research (which is a tiny market in the ocean of servers) that just doesn't happen.
lucm, indeed.
Windows used to run on MIPS, PowerPC and many others, but Microsoft gave up on supporting those 15 years ago.
Yes and that worked out really well for them when it came to dominating the ARM-based smartphone and tablet market.
What tablet market? You mean the nosediving iPad that loses steam year after year compared to the Surface Pro, which sees a 29% annual increase since Microsoft dropped ARM and switched to x64?
lucm, indeed.
Nobody argued with Linux. But please tell me the last time you've seen a MIPS or SPARC server in a modern data center with your own eyes, as opposed to, say, x86 ones.
Every time, they are called Cisco switches, running Linux on MIPS.
Nobody argued with Linux. But please tell me the last time you've seen a MIPS or SPARC server in a modern data center with your own eyes, as opposed to, say, x86 ones.
Every time, they are called Cisco switches, running Linux on MIPS.
You shoud go fix Wikipedia and tell them that Cisco IOS is Linux. That may surprise a few people, like Cisco or Linux people.
lucm, indeed.
Nobody argued with Linux. But please tell me the last time you've seen a MIPS or SPARC server in a modern data center with your own eyes, as opposed to, say, x86 ones.
Every time, they are called Cisco switches, running Linux on MIPS.
You shoud go fix Wikipedia and tell them that Cisco IOS is Linux. That may surprise a few people, like Cisco or Linux people.
It may surprise a few Cisco or Linux people who have been living in a hole that the world including Cisco have moved on since the 90s.
Switches are servers now?
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