Linux Top 5: Ubuntu for Your Smartphone | Linux Today

Linux Top 5: Ubuntu for Your Smartphone

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 2, 2011

“During Shuttleworth’s keynote he casually dropped the fact that
he figures Ubuntu has some 20 million users. That’s a non-trivial
amount of users and citizens of the Linux Planet.

That said, Ubuntu isn’t necessarily the most widely used or
deployed Linux distribution. The Fedora Project, which bases its
usage assessment based on the identification of unique IP addresses
that update Fedora packages, shows a higher number of users.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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