07.24.09
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Measuring Ubuntu’s Market Share by Christopher Tozzi

Over the last few years, various figures have been put forth as measures of Ubuntu’s desktop market share, with some sources contradicting themselves and most sources contradicting the other ones.  Below, we take a look at different attempts to put a number on Ubuntu’s popularity, and explore the various shortcomings and ambiguities involved in all of them.

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07.10.09
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How Chrome OS Will Help Ubuntu by Christopher Tozzi

Many writers, including WorksWithU’s Joe Panttieri, have suggested that Google’s recently announced Chrome OS is bad news for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions struggling to establish a foothold on the desktop, especially in the netbook market.  While only time will tell how this development will really pan out, I’m not so convinced it will be to Canonical’s disadvantage.  Here’s why.

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