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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2008-06-24
Counting MACs wouldn't work either since the MAC address that shows up is the one facing the internet behind NAT... Same issue as counting the IP addresses.
There are some distros that allow new installs to send anonymous info about the new install to servers. This would be a much better method.
Edit.. redunant. Never looked at thread view before posting.
Edited 2008-08-18 20:25 UTC