Ubuntu Linux Now Over 12 Million Users Strong
Ubuntu Linux Now Over 12 Million Users Strong
Posted 04/09/2010 at 6:15am
| by Paul Lilly
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The best thing that ever happened to Linux might have been Windows Vista. It also hasn't hurt matters that Ubuntu continues to make the open-source side of the fence more accessible to new users. While Windows 7 more than makes up for Vista's woes, there are now 12 million users rocking Ubuntu.
The upcoming Lucid release may boost those numbers even higher, but the real growth came in the pre-Windows 7 days. In 2008, Canonical estimated there were some 8 million Ubuntu users, so that means there have been about 4 million added since then. Of course, these numbers aren't exact, but they're probably pretty close.
"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.
As impressive as the numbers are, Red Hat's Fedora leads Ubuntu by a good margin with an estimated 24 million installations.
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faheyd
May 03, 2010 at 8:42pm
I'm dual booting win7 64bit and ubuntu 10.4 . That 10.4 installation was the first time I 'reformated' my linux partitions in 5 years (been upgrading it since 5.04). I kept the 'home' partition and reformated everything else.
I love compiz!
Keith E. Whisman
April 10, 2010 at 9:52pm
I'm just running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. It's awesome enough. I've got Ubuntu on a live CD.
bjoswald
April 10, 2010 at 2:59pm
Ubuntu 10.04 is an amazing release so far, and it's not even out of the beta stage yet. Can't wait for the final release!
Taqueed
April 09, 2010 at 12:00pm
I am useing Ubuntu 9.10 on a dual boot. Windows 7 is still there because of the games. That is the one this that will keep Linux number down, that and the poor support for video drivers. Still having issue with openSUSE insrtall because if rthe ATI drivers.
holmessh
April 09, 2010 at 8:20am
I'm rockin' U 10 Lucid and was lovin' it until this A.M. when my screen went all wonky. Hopefully it was a bad update and there is an update/fix when I get home. I had to boot up Win 7 to check my email today.
van_helblaze
April 09, 2010 at 8:20am
I dual boot 3 computers (2 desktops 1 netbook) with the Desktop edition of Ubuntu, and Windows 7.
linux is the only way I can use 64bit Firefox right now (final Firefox -- not the beta, alpha, pre versions)
JoetheMobster
April 09, 2010 at 7:20am
I'm one of them (personally think Ubuntu rocks).....but not as my main machine. Gaming comes first, hehe!
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