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How Many Linux Users Are There (Really)?
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| As Jim Zemlin, the executive director of The Linux Foundation, points out, "I
| am not joking or trying to be trite, but the answer to this question is:
| every single person in the modern world every day. Everyone who searches
| Google, picks up a phone and uses telecommunication infrastructure, watches a
| new televisions, use a new camera, makes a call on many modern cell phones,
| trades a stock on a major exchange, watches a weather forecast generated on a
| supercomputer, logs into Facebook, navigates via air traffic control systems,
| buys a netbook computer, checks out at a cash register, withdraws cash at an
| ATM machine, fires up a quick-boot desktop (even those with Windows), or uses
| one of many medical devices; the list goes on and on."
|
| "It is hard to think of someone in the developed world who doesn't touch
| Linux every single day. The better question here is who isn't a Linux user,"
| Zemlin concluded.
|
| He's got a point there. If you buy something from Craigslist or keep up with
| friends on Facebook, you're using Linux. To be exact, you're using Big-IP
| 9.4.6, which is an embedded high-speed networking system that incorporates
| Linux. Do you watch videos on YouTube? Linux again. Google? Yes, they run
| Linux too.
|
| [...]
|
| The question that isn't often asked though is: "Can you trust Net
| Applications' numbers?" According to Roy S. Schestowitz, editor of Boycott
| Novell, the answer is: "No." According to a recent Boycott Novell
| blog, "Microsoft and Apple put money on Net Applications' table, so rather
| unsurprisingly, the results satisfy both companies. GNU/Linux, on the other
| hand, is not able to pay Net Applications for favourable bias."
|
| And, in addition, to other points Schestowitz writes, "Net Applications
| admits its statistics are flawed (skewed)" and "Net Applications keeps its
| methods secret and the dataset likewise."
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http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6671/1/
Two-day snapshot:
Windows 327583 49.7 %
Windows XP 222659 33.8 %
Windows (unknown version) 448 0 %
Windows NT 84 0 %
Windows ME 92 0 %
Windows Vista (LongHorn) 79853 12.1 %
Windows Mobile 224 0 %
Windows 98 705 0.1 %
Windows 95 9 0 %
Windows 2008 11225 1.7 %
Windows 2003 7245 1.1 %
Windows 2000 4997 0.7 %
Windows 3.xx 42 0 %
BSD 977 0.1 %
OpenBSD 37 0 %
NetBSD 110 0 %
FreeBSD 830 0.1 %
Linux 220816 33.5 %
Ubuntu 114293 17.3 %
Suse 13509 2 %
Red Hat 728 0.1 %
Mandriva (or Mandrake) 6265 0.9 %
Gentoo 4926 0.7 %
Fedora 14826 2.2 %
Debian 15643 2.3 %
Centos 1256 0.1 %
GNU Linux (Unknown or unspecified distribution) 49370 7.4 %
Macintosh 65648 9.9 %
Mac OS X 65578 9.9 %
Mac OS 70 0 %
Others 4 3334 6.5 %
Unknown 42371 6.4 %
Sun Solaris 478 0 %
Symbian OS 259 0 %
Unknown Unix system 88 0 %
Nintendo Wii 50 0 %
CPM 37 0 %
OS/2 34 0 %
Sony PlayStation Portable 17 0 %
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