The Ubuntu blog has a report on installation metrics:
We first announced our intention to ask users to provide basic, not-personally-identifiable system data back in February. Since then we have built the Ubuntu Report tool and integrated it in to the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS initial setup tool. You can see an example of the data being collected on the Ubuntu Report Github page.
At first login users are asked if they would like to send the information gathered and can preview that data if they wish.
One thing to point out is that this data is entirely from Ubuntu Desktop installs only and does not include users of Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, our cloud images, or any of the Ubuntu derivatives that do not include the ubuntu-report software in their installer.
For example, the average install took 18 minutes, but some systems were able to install in less than 8 minutes. Available RAM was most frequently reported at 4GB followed closely by 8GB, but there were systems reporting in with as little as 1GB and as much as 128GB.
How do your system(s) compare?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday June 25 2018, @07:37AM
LTO Tape Sales Remain Steady [soylentnews.org]
IBM Claims Densest Tape Storage Record [soylentnews.org] (330 TB uncompressed)
LTO-11 (96 TB) and LTO-12 (192 TB) Added to Tape Cartridge Roadmap [soylentnews.org] (also uncompressed)
As long as they can keep making relatively cheap and very dense tapes, it will still be around for years to come.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]