Star Linux - Still Chasing That Elusive 1 Percent Market Share
Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Mon 7th Jul 2008 18:18 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
Linux While I was trawling through Net Applications' operating system share trend data for the past 24 months, something struck me. June 08 marked a big month for Linux. The OS saw the largest increase in market share for the whole 2 year period - a growth of 0.12%.
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RE[2]: waiting for paradigm shift
by boofar on Mon 7th Jul 2008 20:14 UTC in reply to "RE: waiting for paradigm shift"
boofar
Member since:
2008-04-23

i recall that a web appliance was tried by telenor in norway around the 90's. didnt work out so well.


You mean the Telenor SmartPhone?
http://press.telenor.com/PR/200003/798859_5_1.html

Reading about this now is just hilarious! ;)

"This will revolutionise the use of the Internet in Norway," says Turid Grotmoll, Managing Director of Telenor Privat, adding that Norway is the first country in the world with this technology.


A friend of mine had this thing. He got it for free somehow, but I don't think he ever used it much. If I remeber correctly both the keyboard and screen was a pain to use.

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hobgoblin Member since:
2005-07-06

yep, that would be the one.

a relative of mine owned one at some point, but i didnt mess around with it much (i think the browser was outdated even at that point).

nice try on their part tho, kinda like a web version of the minitel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

but at that point isdn was already doing the dodo dance...

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