Ubuntu 14.10 released - 30 million PCs shipped with Ubuntu
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Manufacturers of PCs have recommend Ubuntu Linux for their PCs 30 million times over the last two years.
Ubuntu has seen amazing turn around of fortunes in the last two years.
Ubuntu 14.10 released with the same Linux kernel that can run on ARM64 CPUs.
A lot of ARM64 are decloaking - expect massively powerful computers out soon with minimal power requirements. And Ubuntu will be there to run on them all :)
Even China now recommends Ubuntu Linux and 7 million copies so far have been distributed.
It is highly likely that if Ubuntu is ported to
64 bit ARM then phablets with 128Mb eMMC, 2500x1600 screens would arrive in large numbers to take China phablet markets to new heights. For example, laser cutting machines, 3D printers, CNC machines could all benefit from taking a Ubuntu capacitive touch tablet, pasting it on to the machine, and all of a sudden you got low cost PC (about USD 50) welded to the equipment to control it at a far lower cost than any other competing alternatives. All that the manufacturer of the embedded tablet needs to do is ensure there is enough protected IO lines, USB, ethernet and wifi to allow other PCs to connect, download software and the Ubuntu do the controlling of the machine.A lot cheaper than any other alernative.
This could massively improve the performance of CNC machines, 3D printers, laser cutters etc as the tablet could contain a lot of additional software (open source) that could allow editing of files, pre and post processing of files, generating reports, adding a web interface to the product and so on.
Tons of revenue for the companies that spot the opportunity and also and governments in the Far East that sees the entire thing for what it is.