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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.
Nooooooooooo
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.
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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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.
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/
Vagrant is a good tool as well. There are a lot of Vagrant boxes, and it is nice to be able to try a new OS by making a directory, doing a vagrant init, then a vagrant up.
As for need cases, there is always Slackware and Gentoo. Still actively maintained and going strong. If one dislikes RHEL and downstreams (CentOS, Orable UBL, SuSE) or Debian/Ubuntu, it can't hurt to try those.
Umm... They can see you when you download, they can see you when you hit the update servers, they can see you when you browse the web.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
> 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.
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.
Yeah well, changing from sudo to normal isn't exactly hard. The better you know UNIX, the less it matters which distribution you use, since they are all the same underneath. People who bitch and moan are usually the young and impatient who don't want to RTFM. The people who don't moan and bitch are usually the older ones who don't need to RTFM anymore.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
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!
Also I'm really not into all that sudo bullshit that comes from Debian.
You realize Debian doesn't even have sudo in a base install, right?
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
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.
I could've sworn I've used sudo on RHEL in the past!
And if I really want to live dangerously, I use ' sudo su -'. Saves me from having to remember another password (for root).
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. - Blake
not with Tails they can't.
oh and Tails now has:
apt-transport-tor
"APT transport for anonymous package downloads via Tor
I see you got electricity in your cabin in Idaho, now. Takes a serious amount of paranoia to want to do updates in secret.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
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.
Actually it does, even the package to 15.10 (Wiley) have a SysV script, an upstart script and a systemd unit file. And looking at the installed unit file it does not disable stderr so either GP is full of shit or it's mongodb itself that does not output to stderr.
This is the included unit file on Wiley:
[Unit]
/etc/mongodb.conf
Description=An object/document-oriented database
Documentation=man:mongod(1)
[Service]
User=mongodb
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod --config
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Listen dude, peddle your shallow Unix expertise somewhere else because it's clearly not backed by the most basic common sense.
There's no fucking reason to use a sudo-intensive Debian-based distro and rip out the sudo bullshit out of it. That'd be like installing yum on it and only looking for rpm. Or buying a diesel car and making it work with fuel. Unless you're a hobbyist (or masochist) there's just no point.
And if you think that experienced people don't RTFM then you're not one of them.
lucm, indeed.
"sudo bash", my friend. "sudo bash".
lucm, indeed.
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.
It's fixed. You can send systemd messages to the standard syslogs with a simple configuration change. As I pointed out here:
https://linux.slashdot.org/com...
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
"I see you got electricity in your cabin in Idaho, now. Takes a serious amount of paranoia to want to do updates in secret."
you can have your paranoia. I choose wisdom.
So tell me, How is the guvmint going to persecute you for an OS update?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
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.
That wouldn't surprise me but it does surprise me that you'd think I had the means or inclination to list all possible sources of for them to acquire that information.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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