The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
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Member since:2007-04-12
To quote them: "The basis of the knowledge is data coming from gemiusTraffic - a research study designed to analyze Internet traffic on websites."
I do not know if I understand your suggestion right - but those result are NOT just for their (ranking.pl) own website. "Gemius" is a online research agency http://www.gemius.pl/pl/about_company (in english!)
So - since results are more or less similar in all other countries - Mr. Torvalds do not have - in my opinion - many reasons to cherish. Linux is great thing in general view, but Windows still ruling the desktop and home PC world.
Since release of Vista I wonder how Vista's bad design and some of its "features" will influence into Linux desktop and home adoption and after almost a year it seems that people just stick to XP and are very reluctant to move from XP to Vista, nothing more, nothing less.
Member since:2005-07-02
You *cannot* use these types of methodologies to get accurate market share numbers. There are quite a few reasons for this:
- Browser User Agent masquerading/no browser User Agent (which is the default in KDE, i.e. KDE users usually don't register as Linux users at all)
- Higher concentration of Broadband users among Linux (narrow-band users change IP addresses more often, making them appear as more than one user in such surveys)
- Web site selection: it only takes a few more Windows-centric sites in their sample to unacceptably skew the results
There are other things to consider (such as AOL users registering as multiple users), but these three alone are enough to strongly underrepresent Linux and other alternative OSes. You should therefore stop basing your arguments on figures that cannot by definition be accurate, as it underminds your whole position.
The generally accepted market share figures for Linux worldwide are between 2 and 3 percent (compared to 3 to 5 percent for OS X). Of course, Windows still rules the desktop, but that doesn't meant that alternative OS use is not increasing.
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2005-07-11
As you can see there are still almost four times more Win2000 desktops connected to the Internet, than Linux machines.
I think you might be overstating what this means. They are counting page views by OS. It looks like this just represents a breakdown of their own viewers rather than the whole country of Poland, much less the entire continent of Europe.