The latest news is that the desktop Linux distribution, Ubuntu is coming to smartphones. For those who don’t know about Ubuntu: it is a Linux distribution and kind of an important one. Ubuntu is the most popular desktop Linux distribution in the world. Clear-cut statistics of the popularity of Ubuntu is not easily obtained. However, we have been looking through Wikimedia Foundation’s traffic analysis report for a year ending in Oct 2012, published in November last year. It showed Ubuntu Linux users have made 1.18 billion page requests from various Wiki projects. The only other Linux distribution to surpass Ubuntu is Android and it is due to its popularity on mobile devices. Several estimates say more than 20 million computers use Ubuntu OS. With Ubuntu available on smartphones, the smartphone OS war may probably become fiercer. In October 2011, Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) published a post regarding Ubuntu extending support for ARM architecture. ARM is the primary...
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