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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 05 Mar 2010 16:41 : \____
> Chris Ahlstrom pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics#Who_uses_Fedora.3F
>>
>> TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 19,767,948
>
> To follow up. Go to http://www.distrowatch.com and copy the
> 100 distro counts into a spreadsheet. Scale each entry against
> Fedora's, then add them all up.
>
> What kind of number do you get?
>
> About 370 *million*. 3.7e09!
>
> Now, certainly, that might not reflect unique users, and many people will
> not only be running Windows as well, but other distros besides their main
> one. And certainly there are uncertainties in Fedora's count.
>
> Nonetheless, I think this number really indicates that the usage of Linux
> (and the BSDs and Solaris) is *far* more pervasive than Microsoft and its
> dazed trollers would like us to believe.
DistroWatch is not to GNU/Linux what Google is to the Internet (gateway). Few people who get
GNU/Linux visit the rather antiquated-looking DistroWatch first.
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