Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet
by JJMcJ on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:02AM
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Many many companies use Ubuntu for their desktop Linux as well. Usually not on the server-side, but I've seen that as well.
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Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet
by isostatic on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:40AM
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My company has at least 1861 Ubuntu machines, about 884 VMs, rest being real tin.
Very few are general purpose desktops.
About 250, so 15%, are specialist single-purpose desktops. Rest are servers (i.e. they lack x11-xserver)
Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet
by DeathArrow on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:22AM
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What companies are using linux on desktop?
Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet
by mc32 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:31AM
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Maybe they mean things like goobuntu?
Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet
by jkaplowitz on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:43AM
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Google has switched the basis of their corporate workstation Linux distro from Ubuntu to be Debian testing directly, and renamed it from Goobuntu to gLinux.
This was publicly disclosed by one of the involved Googlers (she is also a Debian developer) at Debian's annual developer conference last year in Montreal, DebConf17.
It was just a 5-minute lightning talk in a segment with many lightning talks, but video should be online if you're curious, and some online news articles exist too.