Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 23:50 UTC
CodingExperiments.com posted an interesting article by utilizing the Google Trends system to show the trends in the Linux ecosystem. While these trends don't mean "market share", they are interesting and pretty accurate in terms of what average users care about. According to it, "Ubuntu" might even overtake the word "linux" in Google's searches.
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This was in 2006. Now they don't need to promote Ubuntu that aggressively. Ubuntu is a well known distro. They can't throw gold away until the end of time. Now that they have a big userbase, they count on their users to promote the distro. This was a good investment at the start, but now they receive more requests than they can pay for.
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2006-11-17
It's Shipit.
Traditionaly, GNU/linux distros were distributed freely: buy a CD and burn GNU/linux on it. Canonical greatest inovation is: we give you the CD with Ubuntu already burnt on it and we send it to you for free, and when you order 1 CD, we ship 10 to you so you can distribute to friends.
Mark had the funds to do it and it worked.
In my opinion, it's not about being the first distro to be newbie-friendly. Mandriva was and is friendlier. The problem with Mandriva is that they don't have deep pockets to invest in those kinds of promotion. They just have enough money to sustain their development team.
With time, Ubuntu get more and more users and will improve and eventually canonical will make big money and we will all gain from it. Thank you Mark Suttleworth.
Edited 2008-07-03 10:20 UTC