Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 50,000,000 Desktop GNU/Linux Users Already?Desktop OS- Vista vs. Linux
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> | Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. 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.
Is that more than 7% of all desktop users? If so, Linux desktop has gone
mainstream!
At least 1 million new Linux desktops a month being added to the count
and increasing the rate all the time.
> | [...]
> |
> | Now, Microsoft reported back in July that 60 million copies of Vista had
> | been sold. Now start subtracting the crossgrades to Xp that are not
> | counted as sales, and the 3-1 to ratio of Xp to Vista sales. Now, I'm
> | not confident in my mathematics, but right now the best I can come up
> | with is a realistic install base of around 40 million.
> |
> | Yes. Desktop Linux Marketshare... is larger than Vista.
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> http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html
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>
> Related:
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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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> Measuring Linux and Open Source
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> | How do you measure success?
> |
> | This question is often asked in the Linux business and development
> | communities, with various answers given: "the number of servers in
> | the enterprise," "the number of desktop deployments," "or the number
> | of new bugs found in Vista today."
> |
> | Measuring success is a matter of definition, and therefore it can be
> | a hard thing to pin down. And, it seems, the challenges of measurement
> | go a lot deeper than something as subjective as "success."
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> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6397/1/
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