____/ Kier on Saturday 08 December 2007 21:15 : \____
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:05:05 +0000, 7 wrote:
>
>> Anti-Linux asstroturfer flatfish wrote on behalf of Micoshaft Corporation:
>>
>>> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:06:42 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Apple's Xmas gift: wireless networking problems
>>>>
>>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| In October, the Apple faithful received the latest, greatest update to
>>>>| their much-vaunted operating system, Mac OS X. As with every other
>>>>| upgrade, it has a wonderful name: Leopard.
>>>>`----
>>>>
>>>>http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15705/1091/
>>>>
>>>>Vista and Leopard are both in bad shape. Good opportunity for Linux.
>>>
>>> Linux has had 15 years to make it's opportunity.
>>> Through Windows ME, Windows XP (pre-sp1) and now Vista Linux has had
>>> the opportuntiy of capitalizing on Microsoft's screw ups.
>>>
>>> So why can't desktop Linux, despite being free, make even the smallest
>>> dent in the desktop market?
>>
>> It is.
>> One million new Linux users per month and the rate is increasing.
>
> Can you actually verify that? It would be nice to believe it, but franlly,
> I can't.
Kier, while overall use is difficult to gauge, proportional growth is a
separate thing. 2 or 3 recent extensive surveys have shown that the number of
participants has doubled. Those who conducted the survey concluded (perhaps
not safely) that the number of GNU/Linux user has doubled in one year. Some
Web statistics--while they fail to show actual absolute and correct figure of
usage ( http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3687616 )--show the
same type of trend (a statistical sample with Linux doubling, but you have to
extrapolate). Recently, a top man at Novell said that about 50 million people
use Linux on the desktop. Do the math. Last year, Ubuntu alone claimed system
updates from 12 million. Ubuntu was not as popular at the time.
There will always be Microsoft-backed entities like IDC and Gartner trying to
confuse users and developers. Users will be fearful, developers will think
that it's not worth developing/porting to GNU/Linux (chicken-and-egg) and the
whole scenario is, well... akin to global warming denial and part of a Big Lie
coordinated campaign for all I can tell. Just look at the FUD which came from
IDC (Microsoft-funded in disguise) just ~3 weeks ago. Classic! They create
uncertainty and hope to reverse the trend of enormous Linux adoption.
About the desktop, let 'friendly' sites like Yahoo give away their logs, but it
misses the broader picture and the many issues (see URL above). It also leaves
out _niche_ sites. In one of my sites, more visitors use Linux than Windows
(based on something like a million hits a month).
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