On Mar 13, 4:44 am, Moshe Goldfarb <brick.n.st...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:32:08 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > Priests and Nuns are Into Linux and Open Source
>
> Nuns I could figure....
> As in NONE............
>
> How DOES a free OS manage to stay at well below 1.0 percent of the desktop
> market?
>
> When you can't give something away, maybe it's time to figure out why
> instead of making even more distributions that you can't give away.
>
> --
> Moshe Goldfarb
> Collector of soaps from around the globe.
> Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
>From http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
That shows a minumum of 3.8% as Linux users.
But don't forget that Linux browsers don't identify themselves as
Linux, they identify themselves as "X11" systems. To get the full
picture, you need to take the "other catagory" and about 90% of that
is also Linux.
2008 Other Linux?
February 5.20% 8.48%
January 4.40% 7.56%
2007
November 4.60% 7.44%
September 5.60% 8.44%
July 5.50% 8.35%
May 5.60% 8.44%
March 4.90% 7.81%
January 5.30% 8.37%
2006
November 6.80% 9.62%
September 5.40% 8.36%
July 4.80% 7.72%
May 4.30% 7.27%
March 4.20% 7.18%
January 3.40% 6.36%
2005
November 3.00% 6.00%
September 3.20% 6.18%
July 4.40% 7.46%
May 3.80% 6.72%
March 3.50% 6.35%
January 3.60% 6.44%
2004
November 4.50% 7.15%
September 4.10% 6.79%
July 4.00% 6.70%
May 3.50% 6.05%
March 3.70% 5.93%
January 3.40% 5.76%
2003
November 1.50% 3.95%
September 3.00% 5.10%
July 2.80% 4.82%
May 3.20% 5.08%
March 2.80% 4.72%
We can see that The release of XP did slow Linux a bit.
Remember, both Windows and Linux are growing.at substantial rates,
Linux was still growing, but Mac was also growing. Notice that this
survey shows that the Linux+Other exceeds the market share of Vista,
which appears to only have grown to 7.6% of the market (about 76
million users).
The Linux? total, based on the calculation described above shows Linux
growing to 8.48% while Vista is only 7.60%.
But remember that this is only a count of IP addresses, not uniquely
identified users. The venues most frequently used by Windows users,
such as AT&T, AOL, MSN, earthlink, and other phone and cellular
providers constitute about 90% of the registered IP addresses exposed
to the general public internet. Linux on the other hand, is most
often used from behind NAT routers (often Linux appliances), which can
make both Windows and Linux PCs on the same network look like the same
IP address.
Furthermore, the huge pool of Windows IP addresses are assigned using
DHCP, which means that Windows users who dial in each day would look
like 30 different IP addresses, while a corporate network of 45,000
corporate workstations, 20-30% of which might be running Linux on a
full-time or shared basis, would appear as a single public IP address.
Moshe likes to quote an even more flawed statistic, based on a survey
of web sites that are pretty much dedicated to Windows, are not major
sites like Google, Yahoo, or CNN.com, and depends on Windows servers
and known malware vulnerabilities to get into the count.
There are more reliable surveys, where each user registers and each
operating system used is measured, such surveys are maintained by
Google, Yahoo, MSN, CNN, and other major popular sites, but the
numbers are very carefully protected. It's one of the reasons that
these sites make sure that they are OSS friendly and browser neutral.
They know that there are lots of users using konqueror, FireFox, other
"non Microsoft" browsers and operating systems, and many of these
users are corporate workstations.
Some of these surveys have been published, but are only available for
a fee, often as high as $5,000 per viewer. Even publishing a summary
of such surveys is strictly forbidden.
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