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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.
by JJMcJ 8y ago
Many many companies use Ubuntu for their desktop Linux as well. Usually not on the server-side, but I've seen that as well.
- DeathArrow 8y agoWhat companies are using linux on desktop?
- mc32 8y agoMaybe they mean things like goobuntu?
- jkaplowitz 8y agoGoogle 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.
- isostatic 8y agoMy 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)