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The Linux desktop is already here
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| I found it more than a little sad that
| someone in 2010 could still think that
| Linux is "still a non-starter on the
| desktop." Please â wake up: We're all Linux
| desktop users now.
|
| No matter what you're running on your
| desktop -- Windows 7, Snow Leopard, XP,
| whatever -- you use the Internet, right?
| And you use Google to search? You talk to
| your friends on Facebook, Twitter of some
| other social network, yes? Then
| congratulations â you're a Linux user.
|
| Thanks to the Web, desktop Linux is
| everywhere. The old desktop metaphor is
| dying. Every day that goes by the lines
| between what used to be a desktop, a
| server, and the network keep blurring.
| Don't think so? Answer me this: How much
| work could you get done without access to
| the Internet?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/15719/the_linux_desktop_is_already_here
Operating Systems and Market Share Statistics
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| What are other things to consider? For
| starters how do these places collect their
| statistics? What websites do they pull
| their data from? The content of a webpage
| very much determines the type of operating
| system that a person is likely to view it
| on. For instance these are the operating
| system statistics from the last month for
| my own (primarily Linux-focused) blog :
|
| * Windows: 44.4%
| * OSX: 8.03%
| * Linux: 44.03%
| * Other: 3.54%
|
| [...]
|
| Beyond just looking at the source of web
| statistics of operating systems, when it
| comes to the global market as a whole, you
| have to consider the countless systems that
| are offline or are rarely connected to the
| internet. Unlike OSX where you can count
| the systems by the amount of Apple hardware
| sold or Mircosoft's Windows where they can
| count the number of activations, a single
| Linux ISO download can account for multiple
| (sometimes even hundreds) of offline (or
| online) installations.
|
| Truth be told, will we ever truly know the
| precise market share of each operating
| system? No, we will not. From my four
| sources here (and others you can find
| around the internet) I'm inclined to
| believe that currently Windows floats
| somewhere around 88%, OSX around 8%, Linux
| somewhere close to 2%, and the rest can get
| lumped into that wonderful "other"
| category.
|
| What do you think? Know of another credible
| source for market share statistics
| regarding operating systems that I didn't
| mention? Let me know!
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http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/03/operating-systems-and-market-share.html
Related:
Evangelist Gartenberg back to being analyst
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| After only three weeks at Microsoft as an "evangelist," Michael
| Gartenberg is returning to his old job as vice president and
| research director at JupiterResearch.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6165381.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Netbook OS Shouldn't Matter, But It Does
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| Last week we heard about the first Android-powered Netbook (which I wrote
| about in First Android Netbook Nothing to Write Home About). Then on Friday,
| analyst Michael Gartenberg, who is VP of Strategy at Interpret, and who
| writes frequently about consumer technology sent the following Tweet:
|
| Is Android's future in Netbooks? NO! of course not.
|
| I tweeted back:
|
| @Gartenberg Not exclusively, but I could see Android being a viable Netbook
| OS.
|
| And Gartenberg replied:
|
| @ron_miller hard to see it. not the right apps and no better than Linux.
| Linux Netbook return rate is huge.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4316.html
Desktop Linux: Actually Better than Windows in alot of ways
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| The article seems to harp on missing driver support for the
| latest hardware. But for most hardware driver support is not only
| there for Linux, it's built directly into the OS. Installing my
| printer required the following installation steps: 1. Turn it on.
| That's it! It's completely automatic. Drivers are located and
| installed automatically.
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http://digg.com/linux_unix/Desktop_Linux_Actually_Better_than_Windows_in_alot_of_ways
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