Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 15th Aug 2008 04:15 UTC, submitted by computerishcat
The traditional market share numbers would say that Linux is currently at less than 1%, but some more recent numbers suggest that it might, in fact, be almost even with the Mac. This all brings the question of how many Linux users are there really? Unfortunately, we may never know. Certainly, there is no way of knowing currently, but it should be possible to at least get a rough estimate.
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Another consideration is that almost all confirmed Linux installs would be taking the place of a Windows install; a piece of information that, alone, could double market share estimates.
I have a suggestion on how we can get a more accurate description of how many Linux users there are. Traffic statistics on the software repository servers. Count the number of unique IP addresses accessing the software repositories each day, average it out over about six months, and you'll have a reliable, though probably underestimated, statistic. It would count how many people are either getting updates, or downloading new software. Perhaps not accurate in a business situation, where updates would be cached to a local server, and the software set stays the same all the time, but a good estimate of home market share.