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So, now Ubuntu take over the server market?
This is a statics from Linode
56% of deployments are Ubuntu
21% of deployments are Debian
17% of deployments are CentOS
2.2% of deployments are Fedora
1.8% of deployments are Arch
with more than 50% using Ubuntu and more than 77% if you combine it's upstream Debian.
It looks like Debian family gain traction over Red Hat.
So, what's your client's distro choice?
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I love debian
I doubt that Ubuntu/Debian is taking over the server market. Even though I'm a Debian user. What the stats do not show is the actual purpose of the respective servers. And that's what it comes down to. Afaik, most of the big companies stick to Redhat based distros.
Be better if you could run cpanel on deb or unbuntu
It would be better if cPanel would be burned and ISPs would provide a good alternative that has arrived in the HTML5/CSS-age.
Debian for all my vps'es. But Ubuntu for our servers because it is way easier to install Java 7 on it.
The numbers for Ubuntu server deployments (i.e. dedicated servers not cheap VPS's) in corporate environments would likely be closer to 0% than 5%
Is that based on Linode's customer base though? If so then I would not see that as anything more remarkable than their clients swing towards one particular distro.
I find Linode leans much more towards Ubuntu in their Library, forums and so on. Is it representative of the world? Not really sure.
That said Ubuntu is certainly making it's way up there.
Me too
Or a cpanel alternative on Ubuntu
My workplace's server use Ubuntu. I really spend some time adjusting myself from CentOS to Ubuntu. But after that, I never want to touch CentOS again.
I believe the majority of very experienced Linux admins are more proficient with RH than Debian/Ubuntu.
If you look at the top one million websites Debian's been in first place for a while and Ubuntu's been steadily gaining in third:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/shuttleworth-highlights-server-growth-as-ubuntu-overtakes-rhel-on-top-websites/
I'm sure Ubuntu's even more popular now (those numbers are a year old) but I do suspect that if you looked at, say, the top 100 websites Ubuntu would be significantly further down.
I think well experienced admins are, too often, to antiquated technophobes as noobs are, very often, to the progressive masses.
Who really cares if that makes sense or is agreeable. It's true, and building from source even dated package management software that often fails to resolve dependencies and requisites configurations before make that are often not update friendly is some thing not only I would denounce-But lots of others who have taught me over the years steered me away from too. Old web heads, guys that have decently sized companies who just don't want to see me make mistakes. I don't know how else to put it really, certainly not saying RH is bad or doesn't have a place. But a lot could have been done over the years to make it more progressive. And a lot wasn't done, so here's to having good software channels and well kept archives for Universe and Multiverse repositories. THAT's why Ubuntu has gained so much popularity. And I like the funky names, so if you don't agree Whatever, just don't be a grumpy groundhog.
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all
Centos is still over Ubuntu and if we add redhat, the difference is even bigger, fedora also and Debian itself is below. Sure, Debian+Ubuntu is significantly over 50% of the total.
Experienced admins prefer Debian/CentOS indeed, however, Ubuntu does the job it was supposed to, introduce more people to linux and admining. That was their goal all the way.
Maybe just with linode customers. not all servers as a whole. since it is vps, maybe people like latest software without compiling, thats why ubuntu.
I think a lot of desktops use Ubuntu but Redhat/CentOS is king in the server market. So Ubuntu might be able to put up big numbers but you gotta put it into perspective.
They all run the Linux kernel and pretty much all the packages come from the same source code so not all that different. At least not in a Mac/Windows sort of way.
We are talking about servers here, not desktops, unless some of the top 1 mil sites are served from desktops which i doubt very much.
Also the discussion started from Linode statistics which are probably 90% servers too.
My workstation before in national university of singapore has a public IP (to my surprise, i thought it was wasteful of ipv4). I served my personal website from my desktop there. But I am not in top 1 mil sites.
Hehe, oh, tempora ! When Asia was still not out of IPv4... Or maybe the university was sitting on a /8 or something.
I think RH has some kind of certification but Debian/Ubuntu don't
Well in that case I would say those numbers are not representative of the overall market.
Most Universities in US, HK, MO, and many other places assign public IP to end users. Yes. It is waste of IPv4. But they have their own block of IP. Usually a lot. However, Most case, their firewall will block some ports so that user cannot host server from their desktop. Your case is rare.
Just one article but sounds about right to me.
http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/708977-the-2013-top-7-best-linux-distributions-for-you
One thing I don't understand is How RH reach 1 million revenue. And where Ubuntu got the money to run
Could be, but that does not show any statistics of usage. I believe it is just some opinions.
I think you mean 1 billion in case of RH. They have paid subscription for updates. The times when people got fired for installing at work "hacker OS" such as linux are long gone, many companies accepted OS software and RH is not free, therefore it must be good and more acceptable than others.
AS for Ubuntu, they were massively subsidized and it does not take quite that much money to run. It is still losing money: http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/canonical-ubuntu-linux-is-still-not-profitable.html
Then google it.
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all
http://www.unixmen.com/linux-in-enterprises-market-share-and-business-which-use-linux/
I believe this is what i linked above ?
One of RedHat's largest customers is the US Defense Department
http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/case-studies/the-department-of-defense-saves-millions-builds-private-cloud
some other enterprise customers http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/case-studies/
All of my VPSes are on Debian 7