Playing the numbers game: how many Linux installations and users are out there?
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| But smolt is only an opt-in tool and is not offered during text installations
| (Servers, etc.) at all. According to Fedora’s statistics page the estimated
| ratio between smolt data and reality is 1 to 10. This would result in 1.25
| million Fedora users - and therefore in 25 million Linux users.
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| Looks nice, especially considering the fact that Apple’s userbase was around
| 22 million half a year ago.
| Ubuntu
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| There is another possible approach to these numbers: Ubuntu’s Mark
| Shuttleworth estimated 8 million Ubuntu users in an interview in late
| December 2006. And both the Linux Desktop Survey and the web server logs from
| Distro Watch gave Ubuntu roughly 30 % of the cake. This makes more than 26.6
| million Linux users 8 month ago.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/playing-the-numbers-game-how-many-linux-installations-and-users-are-out-there/
Many Linux PCs are not connected (or appliance-ed), so it's probably much
higher than this.
Wii overtakes Xbox 360, becomes No.1
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| When it comes to Sony's share of the market, it is obvious that the company
| is in a dire need for Gran Turismo 5, which looks absolutely brilliant and we
| can now predict that an additional 2-3 million consoles should be sold when
| that title comes out. But for now, Sony has the lead in combined PS2/3 market
| share, but in prostituted "next-gen" term area, PS3 can only hold the candle
| for Wii and Xbox 360.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41988
Related:
How many Linux desktop users are there?
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| So it is that Cherry asks that, "If desktop Linux market data is important to
| you or your company, please become involved in the statix project and in the
| deployment of this tool on every distro. I realize that market data can be a
| double-edged sword, so distro vendors should get those issues on the table
| early."
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5155657721.html
Hard to track Linux stats
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| "The characteristic of open source software is that it is freely available on
| the network. People are encouraged to download it, use it as many times as
| they want, modify it to fit their needs, of course, depending upon the open
| source license."
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http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=22305
Smolt profiles distro hardware use
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| For instance, according to the publicly available stats, 78% of respondents
| were running Pentium IIIs or equivalents, and 20% x86_64. The dominant
| language used was US English at 67%, with Japanese a distant second at 6.1%.
| 34% were running systems with less than half a gigabyte of RAM, 37% were
| using half to a gigabyte, and 24% over two gigabytes.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118322
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| "Linux is the default operating [system] on desktops and servers at major
| animation and visual effects studios, with maybe 98 percent [or more]
| penetration," CinePaint Project Manager Robin Rowe told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57300.html
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