Dell Reporting That 40% of PCs Sold in China Are Ubuntu-Powered

Posted by thesilviu on Sep 14, 2015 2:22 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The Chinese market is adjusting itself after Windows XP reached end of life, but it's not all that keen to get hooked on another Windows OS, so it's looking for alternatives. The Ubuntu Kylin OS is having a real impact, and Dell is just one of the mediums used to propagate this operating system.

Windows is still a powerful player in China, but it's not the same situation that we had a decade ago. The ecosystem is much more varied, and we find that there are a number of very successful Linux distributions present. Ubuntu Kylin is just one of them, but it's the one officially supported by the Chinese authorities, and that support carries a lot of weight.

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