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[News] GNU/Linux is Truly Mainstream, Not Just on Desktops

  • Subject: [News] GNU/Linux is Truly Mainstream, Not Just on Desktops
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:47:12 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Googly Eyed

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| After an excruciatingly long time, it looks like Linux is finally taking 
| hold. But maybe we should rename it the Google Operating System because, 
| clearly, the big Daddy Warbucks of search is the wind beneath the wings of 
| Linux these days.   
| 
| Google's new Android initiative has a toehold on cell phones, and the company 
| has long promoted open source on the web, where your browser is basically 
| your OS. Now that's the rallying point for Linux developers on the desktop, 
| as per new machines like the Asus (asus.com) Eee PC 4G mini laptop, Everex 
| (everex.com) gPC TC2502 and Zonbu (zonbu.com) PCs. The search giant didn't 
| build them, but you'd never know it from booting one up.    
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/143796/googly_eyed.html


Recent:

Less software piracy means more jobs, more state revenue: Study

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| "The number of customers using Red Hat operating systems, for example, 
| doubled in 2007," he said.  
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailbusiness.asp?fileid=20080125.L04&irec=3


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. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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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