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Can you back that number up? In my corner of the world Ubuntu plays no role at all on servers. It's all CentOS/RHEL here.

• Thaxll 6y ago
  Ubuntu is by far the most used Linux distro on server, the problem with CentOS / RHEL is they did not support recent kernel for a long time, so you see very few cloud servers with those distro, especially since Docker / Kubernetes took off. Also RHEL is not free so there is no way it's "popular" outside of very enterprise needs ( HPC ect ... ). At previous work they moved away from CentOS to use Ubuntu because libc was just to old, actually everything was old.
  • lars_francke 6y ago
    I'd actually be interested to see those numbers. Do you have any evidence to support that claim? It'd be very interesting for us in terms of priorising supported distros. A bit of googling didn't lead to much. You could be biased by your own job/experience. Most IT doesn't run on the Cloud or in Kubernetes (yet).
    • Thaxll 6y ago
      https://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition https://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition Those are numbers for EC2 so a fairly accurate measurement.
      • theevilsharpie 6y ago
        Those are the number of images, not the number of instances.