Is Ubuntu Linux slowly dying?

[d.kusummmanth@gmail.com]

I was shocked to read this article Is Ubuntu Linux slowly dying? (http://www.devside.net/articles/ubuntu-linux-dying)
I'm so much in love with Ubuntu, that this link blew the DAYLIGHTS:confused::shock::shock::shock: out of me.

Do u think this will happen? ( God please say 'No')...I feel like crying

[klange]

No, and you're quoting an article from a site that seems very pro-Windows.

[teaker1s]

Seems to me that this is another windows bashing linux article.
while the forums are active the distro will continue.:popcorn:
Ubuntu is debian based and debian is free and keeps going

[bobblehat]

It's valid enough as opinion but that's all. The daftest bit IMO was actually

Red Hat is too well established and no one is going to deploy Ubuntu Server, over RHEL, and keep their job at the same time.

Now I've nothing at all against the Red Hat folks and use their stuff regularly but people putting together servers choose various distros based on relative merits and their own experience, not just what everyone else is using. I reckon Debian-based distros have a lot of future in that market.

[Luke has no name]

I agree that Ubuntu, to maintain it's top tier, "above-the-rest" status in terms of popularity and interest, needs to become more than novel.

Businesses need to want it for server AND desktop. Think of what could be done if Ubuntu (or ISVs) could go to a small/medium business and say, "I can support your entire company, and provide you with MORE RELIABLE software at a FRACTION of the cost you pay for Windows licenses." I have truly considered trying something like this when I get out of college (two years).

Ubuntu needs to get its certification process moving. It needs (at MINIMUM) some sort of curriculum for those who want to be "Ubuntu Professionals". Their certification centers are few and far between. Somehow they need to make it easier to get Ubuntu Certified.

I think development is moving along nicely, though here are always bugs to be worked out.

In short, the article is right to be curious abut its future as the OS it is today, though I think it is far too negative, and possibly biased.

[steveneddy]

I would think that the only thing scarier would be to put my personal e-mail address on a web forum accessed worldwide.

Change your user name, fella.

The use of an e-mail address as a user name is only asking for trouble.

[swoll1980]

I would say rapidly growing

[fatality_uk]

I was shocked to read this article Is Ubuntu Linux slowly dying? (http://www.devside.net/articles/ubuntu-linux-dying)
I'm so much in love with Ubuntu, that this link blew the DAYLIGHTS:confused::shock::shock::shock: out of me.

Do u think this will happen? ( God please say 'No')...I feel like crying

Yes it's going to happen. It started last week when Mark Shuttleworth had a secret meeting with Ray Ozzie and Steve Ballmer.

The future plan is to ALL pool resources, kill of RHEL, and bring back the Amiga 500. Once that's in place, they plan to take over the world using loofers covered with green toothpaste and then fly off to the Moon in Mr. Shuttleworts private space rocket.

If you think that was a load of ****, then the idea that Ubuntu, which is growing day by day and getting a lot of Microsoft employees and fansites like this scared, is dying of in the face of OVERWHELMING evidence to the contrary is just as stupid.

[gameryoshi600]

The site seems like its a Microsoft fanboy site bashing linux. don't listen to it.

[id1337x]

All programming languages are going in the way of open source. This means porting them to Linux is a possibility. Java is being GPL'd by Sun meaning 20% of applications are being converted. The only popular proprietary language is Visual Basic which has 10% share. (I stopped using Visual Basic so that is one more person converted to Open Source :) )

90% of developers use an open-source and GNU/Linux compatible language.

Another fact is 55% of the servers are using Linux and the LAMP stack is the most popular and the cheapest to use. More and more business are using LAMP.

Ubuntu has 35% share of distributions and there are some 30 million Linux users. Ubuntu is only growing in popularity everyday and unlike previously Linux isn't restricted to the server market.

[ssam]

if you are worried that ubuntu is going to run out of money then make a donation (http://www.ubuntu.com/community/donations).

I am not worried, but have made a few donations anyway.

[gn2]

Here was me thinking that Canonical had signed some fairly major government clients in Europe and are set to earn good money from various major contracts......

[p_quarles]

Moved to Recurring Discussions.

[d.kusummmanth@gmail.com]

thx for ur support guys. But I'm still not coninced!!

I mean what about the fact mentioned in the article, which says that "for sustainability of Ubuntu, u need a succesful business model built around it".

[teaker1s]

Mark Shuttleworth is a billionaire, unlike other billionaires he chose to give something back. Now I'm sure he would like canonical to be making masses on business support.
If he wanted to tax every user he would be selling a linspire business model.

Billionaire = definatley not stupid in my book

[Joeb454]

He also gave $10 Million to found Canonical :)

And I'm going to give my +1 to asking the Admin's to change your Username :)

[Luke has no name]

And I'm going to give my +1 to asking the Admin's to change your Username :)

Why make him change his name? It's his choice, he clearly made it, so let him live with it until he sees otherwise.

The best lesson is learned the hard way. Don't make his decisions for him.

[zetetic]

The real fact is that Windoze is slowing dying.

[disabledveteran]

The real fact is that Windoze is slowing dying.

Now that's a quote I can get behind!

But it's not just Windows - it's the idea of a desktop OS at all...both users and devices are becoming more and more about the "experience" and less about the software on the system (hint - iPhone). There will be a period (already occurring, IMHO) where Linux of any flavor will have a chance to move onto the desktop and devices and take share from MS. This will occur as more and more applications go mobile or web based.

However, this period is likely to be short-lived. Once everything goes "web" businesses will be able pick the cheapest (or free) desktop OS, as long as the server providing the application is stable and secure.

Canonical has a small window of time to break into the market, head towards profitability, and establish themselves.

That is, of course, my opinion, and everyone knows what they say about opinions.

[Foster Grant]

I was shocked to read this article Is Ubuntu Linux slowly dying? (http://www.devside.net/articles/ubuntu-linux-dying)
I'm so much in love with Ubuntu, that this link blew the DAYLIGHTS:confused::shock::shock::shock: out of me.

Do u think this will happen? ( God please say 'No')...I feel like crying

FUD. The Ubuntu Foundation has a US$10 million endowment.

[BigSilly]

I would say rapidly growing

Yeah so would I.

What a silly article.