More Users Running Linux than Vista
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| According to a recent poll at the electrogeek.com blog the number users
| running the Linux operating system exceeded the number of users running
| Windows Vista.
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http://electrogeek.com/blog/2008/04/04/more-users-running-linux-than-vista/
Fly the Linux Skies
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| But still, this survey, and all the others like it, are really analogous to
| flying a plane with analog instruments. They each individually may be very
| wrong, but when data is collaborated from the other instruments, then a
| clearer picture can be formed.
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| I submit that these numbers do not give a true picture of the state of the
| Linux desktop by themselves. But when put together with all of the other
| clues, you can get a better sense of where things are going: Windows is
| coming down; Mac and Linux are going up. How fast and how much? Well, that's
| still Magic 8 Ball territory.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-04-04-017-26-OP-MR
It's about /trends/.
Related:
Survey Says … Linux Desktop Is Ever More Popular
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| The first thing we can say about the Linux desktop in 2007 is that there are
| more users than ever. The Linux Foundation 2006 survey had fewer than 10,000
| people signing in. This year more than 20,000 Linux desktop users reported
| in.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2235654,00.asp
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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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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
Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports
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| For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey
| compared with fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey.
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| [...]
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| In those businesses and organizations that have deployed Linux desktops, 39.5
| percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
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