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OpenStack’s top operating system: Ubuntu Linux

According to Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, 55 percent of OpenStack operating systems are on Ubuntu, “a stark contrast with the 10 percent of OpenStack deployments on RHEL.”

This isn’t too surprising. Ubuntu has made a point of working closely with OpenStack. Although most people think of Ubuntu as just a desktop operating system with designs on becoming a smartphone power, it has also long been a major cloud player.

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