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[News] A Look Back at the Fast Growth of Linux

  • Subject: [News] A Look Back at the Fast Growth of Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:24:12 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Kewney: When I sat up at Comdex

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| I can’t imagine too many people fell off their office stools in astonishment 
| five years ago when United Linux announced version 1.0 of a “standards-based” 
| Linux, as the result of work by SCO, Suse, Turbolinux and Conectiva. What did 
| make me sit up was the fact that the announcement was made at Comdex.   
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http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2203522/kewney-sat-comdex

A Dozen Years Later

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| Just as titillating, with my 2400 "baud" modem, it took me two hours to 
| download all of 1.2's whooping two megabytes. Today, I can download all 43MB 
| of 2.6.23 in 15 seconds at almost 3MB/s. As a comparison, it would take two 
| days to download a modern kernel with my old modem.   
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http://blog.rlove.org/2007/11/dozen-years.html

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| Top 10 Operating Systems (Jupitermedia)
| Operating System      % of Total Visits
| Windows                       90.87%
| Linux                         6.14%
| Macintosh                     2.70%
| (Not Set)                     0.17%
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007111602426OPCY

Not a Linux site. Just technology.


Related:

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| Novell claimed several months 
| back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for upwards of 
| 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent statements made by 
| some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are upwards of 
| 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. Microsoft has never contested the number of 
| Desktop Linux users, and if anything the deal Microsoft signed with Novell 
| was tacit agreement that Microsoft believed those numbers to be accurate.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html


Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey

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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says 
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their 
| Linux distribution of choice.  
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html


Survey: Desktop Linux use grows

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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux, 
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users 
| in the past year.  
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html

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