Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users — Before Lucid 360
darthcamaro writes "It's always a challenge to try and figure out how many users a particular Linux distro has — but Canonical is now providing a new figure for Ubuntu that is 50 percent more than what they were claiming just 18 months ago. '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. Just in case you were wondering, Fedora still claims more — actually almost double, at 24 million."
Not until Netcraft confirms it (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not getting my hopes up until Netcraft confirms it.
Nerd next door... (Score:4, Funny)
I bet it's that guy next door with 12 million computers!
Re:I run Slackware but I masquerade it as Ubuntu (Score:5, Funny)
I run Slackware but I masquerade my OS string as Ubuntu ;-))
I like to masquerade all ID strings, masquerading apache as IIS, sendmail as JavaMail etc. etc.
Don't worry - the job market is supposed to turn around any day now.
Re:Sadly (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe Lubuntu can get an endorsement from Astroglide
Claims based on Esitmates (Score:5, Funny)
Based on estimates, I have had meaningful relationships with many, many hot ladies.
*Estimates based on downloads.
umm... sorry redhat has becom irrelevant (Score:1, Funny)
I don't know anyone who uses redhat when not forced to do so by some vendor relationship / policy at work-- don't know anyone uses their abandoned... then not abandoned desktop, fedora, at all.
I know Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo users, listed in order of popularity among the folks I know. Not a single hat user, regardless of type or color.
Sounds like marketing lies by redhat... redhat is well known for less than honest behavior... guess that is what you do when you realize you are becoming / have become irrelevant.
Re:Fedora is not more popular than Ubuntu (Score:1, Funny)
So?
Re:Some fairly realistic figures (Score:1, Funny)
Um... If numbers are what are coming out of your ass, you should see a doctor immediately!
Re:Some fairly realistic figures (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Xbox 360? WTF? (Score:3, Funny)
Okay, in retrospect I really should have gone with a car metaphor rather than mentioning a microsoft product or a console of any type. Left myself open to at least three populations of fanboys there.
The graphics and lack of exclusive devlopers... you really went that extra mile to make that the most ridiculous console post I've read on slashdot. I did mention I had a wii, right? Exclusive developers? If I were a shareholder of MS, that might upset me
I bet you just can't wait for Microsoft to crap out another one of those retarded Halo games with that leaping shiny green Power Ranger.
Wait, the next Halo will star the Green Power Ranger... and you WOULDN'T want that?!?
I'm prepared to say that you are some type of zombie if a combination of alien slaughter and power rangers doesn't interest you.
12 million plus one (Score:2, Funny)
Thats right, I just switched
Re:Sadly (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Nerd next door... (Score:2, Funny)
12 million!? I would've thought 640 000 to be enough for anybody.
*ducks*