Linked by snydeq on Fri 17th Dec 2010 22:32 UTC
InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues sees 2010 as a watershed year for Ubuntu, one that could herald meaningful enterprise interest in the OS, thanks to a rising tide of developers - and deployment servers - adopting the OS. "As with many recent trends in the IT industry, developers become ambassadors for products they enjoy using and have quickly become an early indicator for enterprise technology usage in the future. In a seemingly perfect storm, Ubuntu is benefiting from strong developer usage, and the fact that developers are increasingly selecting Amazon's EC2 cloud platform bodes well for continued Ubuntu success on EC2," Rodrigues writes, noting that Ubuntu has surpassed Red Hat usage on deployment servers as well. "As that occurs, IT decision makers will need to consider or reconsider Ubuntu for usage within the enterprise. Rest assured that Red Hat won't sit idly by during these discussions."
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RE[7]: Comment by flanque
by ricegf on Sun 19th Dec 2010 13:04
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You seem to get lost between "It uses a modified Linux kernel" and "Android is not a Linux product". A Linux product is a product built on Linux technology. Android is. It really is just that simple. (Maybe you meant it's not a Gnu/Linux product? We'd agree there - Android has a custom user land built on Java technology. ;-)
Speaking of remarkable leaps, the thread was:
"[q][q]Besides that, an adoption of Linux around 30% (in the mobile area) can hardly be considered a failure.
Where did you get 30% from?
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Probably from Gartner.
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The context of my comments were about Linux on the desktop.
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Jumping from "30% in the mobile area" to "the context of my comments were about Linux on the desktop" is... well, remarkable. :-D
RE[8]: Comment by flanque
by Savior on Sun 19th Dec 2010 17:25
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Member since:2006-09-02
You seem to get lost between "It uses a modified Linux kernel" and "Android is not a Linux product". A Linux product is a product built on Linux technology.
Please... it's beginning to get old. Nobody cares about the difference between Linux and GNU/Linux; it is good for nothing aside from making excuses and showing off. Users only care about the userland (hence the name). Since Android doesn't use the Linux userland, it is not a "Linux OS", at least not in the same way as Meego is.
an adoption of Linux around 30% (in the mobile area) can hardly be considered a failure.
Yes, but as a brand, Linux is as marginal on phones as on the desktop. It would be great if Nokia and Meego could change that.
RE[8]: Comment by flanque
by flanque on Mon 20th Dec 2010 00:29
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You seem to get lost between "It uses a modified Linux kernel" and "Android is not a Linux product". A Linux product is a product built on Linux technology. Android is. It really is just that simple. (Maybe you meant it's not a Gnu/Linux product? We'd agree there - Android has a custom user land built on Java technology. ;-)
I'm not at all lost. Android is not a "Linux product". It's a Google product.
Calling it a Linux product is about as accurate as calling a plane that uses Mercedes jet engines a Mercedes product. It may use a component of what the general person considers Linux (i.e. the userland experience), that is a modified kernel but calling it a "Linux product" is simply misleading.
RE[7]: Comment by flanque
by _txf_ on Sun 19th Dec 2010 18:44
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Member since:2008-03-17
erm... modified linux kernel is STILL a linux kernel. And when they say modified they mean it has things that the mainline linux kernel did not accept. But it still tracks the mainline linux kernel, patches flow easily between them and it operates in much the same way.
Also...Define "Linux Product". Who makes these mystical products, what are their characteristics?
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Android is not a "Linux product". It has a modified Linux kernel, among many other differences.
The context of my comments were about Linux on the desktop.