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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Windows Users download Ubuntu
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Today I was downloading Ubuntu 7.10 desktop i386 iso and came across an
> | interesting fact.
> | I was using kTorrent and was delighted to see more than 1400 seeders and
> | around 150 leechers.
> | There were seeders from many countries prominent among them being
> |
> | 1. U.S
> | 2. U.K
> | 3. Germany
> | 4. Italy
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Now utorrent is a Windows only client, this makes this observation very
> | interesting. Imagine, the maximum number of Ubuntu peers are actually using
> | some version of Windows :). This indicates the growing awareness of Ubuntu
> | among Windows users.
> `----
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> http://abhay-techzone.blogspot.com/2007/11/windows-users-download-ubuntu.html
>
>
> Related:
>
> 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
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>
> Survey: Desktop Linux use grows
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | 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.
> `----
>
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html
This is very good news. The windows users are helping to distribute
linux :-) We should try and get an idea of what percentage of winodws
torrent users use utorrent, and then perhaps estimate the number of
windows clients.
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