<story><title>​Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-continues-to-rule-the-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codewithcheese</author><text>A big reason why it dominates the cloud is tons of web developers use Ubuntu as their desktop Linux of choice. It&amp;#x27;s really very convenient to develop and deploy on the same OS. I don&amp;#x27;t think its accurate to say &amp;quot;The desktop is a nice add-on, but it&amp;#x27;s not Canonical&amp;#x27;s focus nor should it be.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mindcrime</author><text>&lt;i&gt;A big reason why it dominates the cloud is tons of web developers use Ubuntu as their desktop Linux of choice.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is exactly why people were screaming at Red Hat back when they decided to kill their (then) consumer offering, and later when they started actively eschewing talk about desktop Linux.  Everybody knew that developers drive adoption of server OS&amp;#x27;s and that once developers started moving away from Red Hat derived distros on the desktop that they would eventually start moving away server-side as well.  But I guess the higher-ups at RH either didn&amp;#x27;t believe, or didn&amp;#x27;t care.&lt;p&gt;Personally I still use Fedora as my personal desktop OS and mostly run CentOS, Fedora or Amazon Linux on servers.  I never saw the appeal in Ubuntu.  From what I recall, their main claim to fame had always been &amp;quot;we pre-ship all the proprietary audio&amp;#x2F;video codecs that RH won&amp;#x27;t ship&amp;quot; and the supposed superiority of apt over yum.&lt;p&gt;I use Ubuntu on the desktop on my work provided laptop and it works well enough, but I don&amp;#x27;t see any particular advantage over Fedora. And I prefer yum (now dnf) to apt, so I doubt I&amp;#x27;ll switch anytime soon.  Still, if RH cares about this sort of thing, they really should start embracing &amp;quot;Linux on the desktop&amp;quot; again.</text></comment>
<story><title>​Ubuntu continues to rule the cloud</title><url>http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-continues-to-rule-the-cloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codewithcheese</author><text>A big reason why it dominates the cloud is tons of web developers use Ubuntu as their desktop Linux of choice. It&amp;#x27;s really very convenient to develop and deploy on the same OS. I don&amp;#x27;t think its accurate to say &amp;quot;The desktop is a nice add-on, but it&amp;#x27;s not Canonical&amp;#x27;s focus nor should it be.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mreiland</author><text>I run Ubuntu locally because it tends to work better as a vmware guest.  You can get other distro&amp;#x27;s to work with the quality of ubuntu, but not without a lot more hassle.&lt;p&gt;If I get to choose I&amp;#x27;ll run arch linux, but inside vmware it&amp;#x27;s ubuntu hands down.</text></comment>