{"id":161152,"date":"2016-04-11T07:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T05:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=161152"},"modified":"2016-04-11T07:52:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T05:52:51","slug":"ubuntu-is-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161152-ubuntu-is-everywhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu is everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many institutions use Ubuntu, including Netflix, Snapchat, Dropbox, Uber, Tesla, and the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insights.ubuntu.com\/2016\/04\/07\/ubuntu-is-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This is according to Canonical<\/strong><\/a>, which is celebrating the upcoming Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system, which is used in personal computers, smartphones, and network servers.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu is developed by Canonical, a company started by South African-born entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo celebrate Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, we wanted to shine a bit of light on how many people in the world actually use Ubuntu,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n<p>Users aren\u2019t required to register their installation, devices are pre-loaded with the software, and servers are powered by Ubuntu &#8211; making it difficult to track user numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is, hundreds of millions of PCs, servers, devices, virtual machines, and containers have booted Ubuntu to date and are in use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0infographic below shows you where Ubuntu is used today.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Infographic_Ubuntu-Everywhere.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-161156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161156\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Infographic_Ubuntu-Everywhere.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu Everywhere\" width=\"608\" height=\"3535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Infographic_Ubuntu-Everywhere.png 608w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Infographic_Ubuntu-Everywhere-74x430.png 74w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Ubuntu<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/159756-first-ever-ubuntu-tablet-here-soon.html\"><strong>First ever Ubuntu tablet here soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/158415-dell-xps-13-laptop-comes-with-ubuntu-14-04.html\">Dell XPS 13 laptop comes with Ubuntu 14.04<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/134958-ubuntu-phones-now-available-in-south-africa.html\">Ubuntu phones now available in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many large companies use Ubuntu, including Netflix, Snapchat, Dropbox, Uber, Tesla, and the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":76560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,969,967],"class_list":["post-161152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-canonical","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161162,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161152\/revisions\/161162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}