Ubuntu now bigger than Jesus
Although Distrowatch may say your mate’s homemade Linux rules the world, we’ve always been Google Trends fans. When reconfirming that the big three - Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSuSE - are still the most popular Linux distros, we noticed that Ubuntu has reached another milestone entirely.
Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution to overtake Jesus in Google Trends, establishing a firm lead over the bearded one since the end of Q1 this year.
To help explain the results (and to help distinguish the two if you’re confused) we’ve produced following handy comparison chart.
| Ubuntu | Jesus | |
| Date of last release | 5 months | 2000 years |
| Date of next release | October | Unannounced |
| Notable features of next release |
Compiz Fusion Live search Hot pluggable monitor support PDF Printing Firefox 3 |
Pestilence Horsemen Judgement |
| Created by mysterious spaceman | Yes | Yes |
| Responsible for winning of Emmy Awards | No | No |
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September 13th, 2007 00:02
Oh.. Ubuntu.. Jesus… The Beatles… I hope religious people doesn’t start burning ubuntu distros like, years ago (at ’60s) when John Lennon said The Beatles were more popular than Jesus :-p
September 13th, 2007 15:01
At least Ubuntu has a “christian edition” to keep them at bay… the beatles didn’t think of that one. If they had released a gospel CD mixed in there they’d have been fine.
September 13th, 2007 15:09
Ubuntu resurrected my computer. Believe!
September 13th, 2007 15:10
But you can’t blame Jesus for not backing Kathy Griffin’s show. I think his taste is much more refined.
September 13th, 2007 15:10
well, I suppose this just shows that at this point, more people than ever have found Jesus. More people would search for Ubuntu than Jesus if that’s the case!
September 13th, 2007 15:20
Worry not, for Ubuntu is inevitably destined to grace the entire globe while religion is only significant in the American continent and the Middle East, basically. =3
September 13th, 2007 15:44
Jesus just has a long release cycle. Blame his developer. =P
September 13th, 2007 16:20
Ubuntu is now also bigger than God, which is cool too…
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+god&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
September 13th, 2007 16:30
I don’t think this is a fair comparison as Jesus actually comes in various competing distributions (Protestant, Catholic and even Islam being three of the most popualar).
Also, I’d expect much bigger peaks for Jesus at Christmas and Easter - these seem suspiciously small….
September 13th, 2007 16:41
@Dan
Yeah, they have a CE (Christian Edition). But Ubuntu seems to be truly agnostic as they also have Ubuntu SE, the Satanic Edition. Not my cup of tea (either one - I lean toward taoist thinking), but humorous none the less.
Now what I think would be cool would be a Hindubuntu (the artwork alone should be worth it), or better yet a Yogic Ubuntu (a “Namaste” sign-on screen would be sublime). This could be fun… we could have ZenBuntu (rock gardens desktop?) , Quetzeqotalbuntu, Gaelicbuntu (or perhaps faeriebuntu), NorseBuntu, Amun-RaBuntu (for the Egyptologist), Ubuntu PE (Pagan Edition), Ubuntu NA (New Age), and the list could go on and on…
September 13th, 2007 22:18
The Dark One will be most pleased with this news (http://ubuntusatanic.org/). Mwah ha ha ha haaaaaaaa.
“I suppose this just shows that at this point, more people than ever have found Jesus”
Uh, no - it means people are less interested in him and it hopefully means more people are giving up on imaginary sky fairies to make sense of their lives.
September 13th, 2007 22:34
This gave me great mirth. It reminded me a bit about the story
about Mark Twain reading his own obituary so he wrote a letter
to the editor of the newspaper which printed it:
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Both compared memes* are clearly seen to be well, alive and in
continuous and productive development by those in the know,
but while I also like it greatly, I somehow don’t see
Ubuntu as being around in 2000 years time.
(* memes meaning bodies of working knowledge and/or
sets of understanding which inform and influence significant choices)
To know how useful either meme can be you first have to install
and use it, and then update it regularly. I installed Jesus
22 years ago, Linux about 12 years ago and Ubuntu 2 years ago.
Just as I tried to get my children to use Linux when they
were young with some limited success, but they now mainly use
Windows for playing games and Linux very occasionally if ever,
my parents tried to encourage me to install Jesus properly when
I was young but I also chose incompatible memes that turned
out after trying them to cause more harm than good.
As with Linux, the best choice isn’t immediately or always the easiest.
But since I installed them successfully, Linux and Jesus have
been working and updating very well ever since - neither of
them problem free but life isn’t supposed to be so.
Onwards and upwards.
September 14th, 2007 01:50
Well, we already have Jewbuntu and Ubuntu Muslim Edition.
September 14th, 2007 02:24
That’s because Ubuntu has active “advertising” and “tempting” features, while Jesus kind of expects us to advertise for him while he provides the same(not so tempting) features as perhaps 2000 years ago.
September 14th, 2007 03:17
I found this hilarious. Ubuntu > Jesus. Pretty funny.
September 14th, 2007 13:14
Ubuntu better watch out for Yoko.
September 14th, 2007 18:53
Hi Everyone.
I love you all! And Ubuntu too! But not Satan.
Cheers
- gareth
September 15th, 2007 00:49
Ubuntu, just like Jesus, is for the believer.
September 17th, 2007 23:34
long live suse linux. I think its one of the oldest distributions
September 20th, 2007 08:23
I think this is one of the funniest things I have read in my life!
I believe in Ubuntu, good stuff!
September 22nd, 2007 05:15
//Ubuntu resurrected my computer. Believe!
No kidding. A friend had a dead laptop which the geeksquad prounounced as irrecoverable(they even said the motherboard is bad). I could not install windows back on it. But I installed Ubuntu successfully. Then the friend turned around put winblows on it again
September 23rd, 2007 02:32
Hello!
We are always welcome to see new adepts joining with us in our Sect!
Offoffoff,
Russian Dept. of Ubuntu Worldwide Sect Leader
To register in sect go here:
http://www.flippinsweetdude.com/maps/index.php
To talk with preacher:
#ubuntu-ru at freenode.net
December 10th, 2007 17:44
Ha! I laughed out loud at this post. Very witty analysis. But it’s totally true–Ubuntu is red-hot.
December 16th, 2007 08:13
I just can’t believe there are so many ubuntu fans out there. Not fans, probably followers. Maybe they should try to establish a cult, who knows, if scientology worked, why wouldn’t this?