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Erosion
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| The global number of PCs on the planet is
| around 1400 million. The gadgets are
| additional millions. This dilutes the
| sensitivity of this data for understanding
| the share of OS on PCs. The w3schools
| number for GNU/Linux, 4.5% is much more
| believable but even that site has a bias
| to that other OS because it has sections
| for .asp, etc. The w3schools numbers
| likely do not include phones and gadgets.
| In May 2009, w3schools showed that other
| OS as 89.5%. In May 2010, w3schools showed
| that other OS as 88.3%, a drop of 1.2%
| when their new â7â OS is stocking
| retailers shelves. This must mean a fair
| chunk of businessesâ XP machines are
| migrating to MacOS and GNU/Linux.
| W3schools showed XP dropped 11.9 points in
| the past year so about 10% of those that
| migrated away from XP went away from that
| other OS. That is a potential 300 million
| XP business machines with 30 million
| leaving the fold. Itâs not an avalanche
| but a trickle in a crack in the dam. I
| expect as early adopters in business find
| GNU/Linux works for them the crack will
| widen. People who encounter GNU/Linux at
| work may well demand retailers supply
| GNU/Linux, bursting the dam. 2014 is the
| date of XPâs demise.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/06/03/erosion/
Google and the Desktop
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| We know GNU/Linux on the desktop is
| growing rapidly in deployments if not
| share and most of those deployments are in
| business because most users of PCs at home
| do not install operating systems. Google
| has simply been the most visible of late.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/06/04/google-and-the-desktop/
Recent (from Homer):
Software Popularity Stats, 6th October 2009.
Top 10 Windows Downloads (download.com).
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| No | Downloads | Name | Type |
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| 1 | 1,439,289 | AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition | Anti-Malware |
| 2 | 961,282 | Avira AntiVir Personal | Anti-Malware |
| 3 | 635,270 | Avast Home Edition | Anti-Malware |
| 4 | 564,455 | Malwarebytes Anti-Malware | Anti-Malware |
| 5 | 483,105 | LimeWire | Piracy |
| 6 | 412,024 | YouTube Downloader | Piracy |
| 7 | 367,946 | WinRAR (32-bit) | Piracy * |
| 8 | 317,798 | Ad-Aware Anniversary Edition | Anti-Malware |
| 9 | 255,168 | Advanced SystemCare Free | B0rk Fixer |
| 10 | 247,698 | IObit Security 360 | Anti-Malware |
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Top 10 Linux Projects by Popularity (freshmeat.net)
(based on number of subscriptions, URL hits and record hits)
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| No | Score | Name | Type |
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| 1 | 100 | gcc | Dev |
| 2 | 99.31 | Apache | Web |
| 3 | 89.67 | cdrtools | Utility |
| 4 | 80.54 | Linux (kernel) | OS |
| 5 | 59.89 | PostgreSQL | Database |
| 6 | 51.34 | VLC | Multimedia |
| 7 | 42.16 | ClamAV | Anti-Malware * |
| 8 | 41.91 | MPlayer | Multimedia |
| 9 | 36.88 | MySQL | Database |
| 10 | 36.40 | PHP | Dev |
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