With a small amount of commercial promotion, another Linux incarnation, Android, dominated the mobile device market (from 20% to at least 51% in FY2011) — Linux on the desktop would have a similar change in market share with similar promotions. The real deal however is that OS manufacturer is becoming irrelevant with OS agnostic Cloud-based communications and apps that run in browsers, so eventually a for-pay OS that achieves nothing more than a free OS will fall away.
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Heads Up!
Pay Attention! This is powerful. You carry your phone with you, use it when you are mobile. When you get home you drop it into its charging dock and it connects to keyboard and screen — it is now a PC with PC performance, software, and features. You go to a friend’s house, drop it…
Ubuntu Release Schedule
The Ubuntu release schedule is rather hard to find: the link is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseSchedule Ubuntu 12.04 will be released April 26, 2012. It will be supported for five (5) years thereafter.
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