I work with Linux most days, and run it on pretty much all my desktops. So the a few days back I was feeling a bit jaded about doing the same old stuff and started Googling for some interesting things to do. I saw lots of posts about desktop related stuff, but not so much server side things. The goal is fun a play here… with a bit more effort I came up with the following ideas Read more…
Canonical and analyst firm RedMonk released findings of a survey sent to thousands of Ubuntu Server users. It was developed with the Ubuntu community and was completed by almost 7,000 respondents. The companies says the survey confirmed that Ubuntu was being widely used in the most common workloads (web, print, file, database and mail servers) and that it is considered mission critical by most respondents.
via Canonical and RedMonk release survey on Ubuntu Server Usage.
You can grab the review results directly from here
Update: I found an interesting comparision betweem Ubuntu and Windows performance. The author plainly states they are a Linux proponent, but tries to give a fair comparision.
Brandon Checketts
Liz Quilty
