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.
|
| [...]
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| 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
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
Measuring Linux and Open Source
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| How do you measure success?
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| 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."
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| 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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