Google shows impressive traffic spikes on Ubuntu release days
Posted in Main on August 4th, 2008 by Pingdom
Look at this traffic graph for Ubuntu.com from Google Trends. Gee, wonder when they released new versions of Ubuntu?
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Microsoft’s software update beats Apple and Ubuntu
Posted in Main on July 11th, 2008 by Pingdom
Every OS out there can be updated over the Internet. In fact, this functionality is a critical and important part of the OS, and updates are often done in an automated fashion. Windows has its Windows Update, Mac OS X has its Apple Software Update and Ubuntu has its main repositories. We have measured the [...]
Women in Open Source
Posted in Main on June 18th, 2008 by Pingdom
We here at Pingdom have been talking about why we don’t see that many women in Open Source, and were actually about to investigate it further and possibly write a blog post about it. However, when we started to actually look around we were happily surprised. There are lots of women involved in Open Source! [...]
5 geeky Easter eggs for Easter
Posted in Main on March 20th, 2008 by Pingdom
In time for Easter we thought that we should list a few funny and geeky Easter eggs. Easter eggs in software don’t do anything good besides being funny which we of course like. So here we present a few selected ones that we think are funny. Mac OS X Leopard, Blue Screen of Death Start [...]
The major incidents on the internet in 2007
Posted in Main on December 27th, 2007 by Pingdom
We have gathered 13 of the most notable internet-related outages and incidents of 2007. Why 13? Though you usually can’t blame downtime on bad luck, we thought it was an appropriate number for a collection like this. Now on to the list! The Great Skype Outage Anyone using Skype will remember this one. Back in [...]
Ubuntu website unable to handle demand for new version
Posted in Main on April 19th, 2007 by Pingdom
The Ubuntu website has been unresponsive most of the day so far. This coincides with the highly anticipated release of the new Ubuntu 7.04 (April 19). It seems that Ubuntu has underestimated the demand for the new version. Traffic should increase even more as day time in USA arrives and even more people try accessing [...]
Ubuntu website down this weekend
Posted in Main on March 26th, 2007 by Pingdom
The Ubuntu website was unavailable for more than four hours straight this weekend according to GIGRIB. If this had something to do with website maintenance or just an overwhelming demand for the new Ubuntu 7.04 Beta they released last Friday we don’t know. What we do know is that in just one day, Ubuntu has [...]
Linux still topping downtime league in 2007
Posted in Main on March 22nd, 2007 by Pingdom
These are the downtimes so far in 2007 for the websites of some of the more famous OS developers, namely Microsoft, Apple, Sun, FreeBSD, Red Hat and Ubuntu. (URLs link to the downtime report pages for the websites.) Website Downtime www.ubuntu.com 3h 32 min www.redhat.com 2h 40 min www.freebsd.org 1h 56 min www.sun.com 1h 28 [...]
Linux topping downtime league this month
Posted in Main on January 23rd, 2007 by Pingdom
We had a look at the websites of some of the more famous OS developers, namely Microsoft, Apple, Sun, FreeBSD, Red Hat and Ubuntu. So, how are they doing, downtime wise? Downtime so far in January (URLs link to the downtime report pages for the websites): Website Downtime www.redhat.com 2h 30 min www.ubuntu.com 1h 59 [...]
