Comments on: Linux popularity across the globe

By: Kedai Obat

Kedai Obat — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:25:29 +0000

where’s the Africa

By: activekita

activekita — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:30:43 +0000

Ubuntu is very interesting, and needs to consider

By: Homes Orlando Native

Homes Orlando Native — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:34:52 +0000

Ubuntu is getting lots of users here in Spain from 4 years ago.

By: Volomike

Volomike — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:24:34 +0000

I really think that cpanel has a LOT to do with this. Currently, cpanel does not work with any Linux other than RH or RH-derivatives like Fedora or CentOS. I’m a huge Ubuntu fan, so this is disappointing. Sure, we can use webmin, but it’s not as smooth as cpanel.

But anyway, without cpanel support, it means that several hosting providers have avoided Ubuntu, which hurts Debian and Ubuntu stats.

I really think Canonical.com should take this matter seriously and try to work with the cpanel team, or come up with a cpanel-knockoff.

By: zeta

zeta — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:48:19 +0000

While I like this study, I find the methodology a bit dubious. Here in Germany Ubuntu is pushed by the very lively Ubuntu website (ubuntusers.de), and chances are most german users get their install files through them. Since they also have a big wiki and forum, you probably will go there once you encounter any problems. Fact is, although I started four years ago with Ubuntu, I cannot remember when I ever googled a problem, I just went straight to the website and looked there for advice.

By: Fath17

Fath17 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:52:58 +0000

glad to know Indonesia is in top five open source distribution, but i am worry our government did not many support to evolving open source software.

By: Wojtek

Wojtek — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:32:28 +0000

I come from Poland and it seems pretty strange to me that Poland is mentioned in the list (Mandriva). Polish government is close-source oriented (agreements with Microsoft). A few organizations try to change it but it is quite difficult. Polish school teaches old, closed technologies: attending to school you learn Microsoft Word, Excell, PowerPoint. But it depends mostly on teachers who are taught close-source from the cradle.

But there is a little light at the end of the tunnel: recently Polish Electronic Communication Office (UKE) has supported Jabber and adopted it: and it happened in result of a few enthusiasts who persuaded officials.

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mapas de popularidad de gnu/linux en el mundo [eng] — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:37:17 +0000

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By: threethirty

threethirty — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:36:51 +0000

I don’t think all of these people are interested in just a kernel. I’m sure that the GNU tools and other projects are more of interest to people so can we call it GNU+Linux. Don’t get me wrong the Linux kernel is the bees knees but I think calling what is being searched for GNU+Linux might be more fitting.

By: blue

blue — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:02:55 +0000

@mr. sabri, the Indonesian government task is to foster a conducive environment for open source development and movement in Indonesia. The fact that Blankon (developed by the ubuntu community) grow rapidly and widely used by computer users in Indonesia, shows that the government have done a good job