What Canonical gets out of this focus on the server, as opposed to the desktop, is that "70% of our business comes from server support. So, the state of adoption for server is very significant for Canonical."
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The South African software entrepreneur added that Canonical will be shipping "point" hardware updates for Ubuntu 8.04 that will start three months after 8.04 arrives and then be released every six months, which will let Ubuntu LTS support new CPU features as they arrive from the chip vendors.
[^] # Re: et ?
Posté par IsNotGood . En réponse au journal Pas de desktop pour les masses chez Red Hat. Évalué à 2.
http://www.linux.com/feature/132575
What Canonical gets out of this focus on the server, as opposed to the desktop, is that "70% of our business comes from server support. So, the state of adoption for server is very significant for Canonical."
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The South African software entrepreneur added that Canonical will be shipping "point" hardware updates for Ubuntu 8.04 that will start three months after 8.04 arrives and then be released every six months, which will let Ubuntu LTS support new CPU features as they arrive from the chip vendors.
Comme Red Hat avec ses updates 1, 2, etc.