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50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect

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It was not long ago when Microsoft Windows had a tight stranglehold on the operating system market. Walk into a Circuit City or Staples, it seemed, and virtually any computer you took home would be running the most current flavor of Windows. Ditto for computers ordered direct from a manufacturer. In the last decade, though, the operating system market has begun to change. Slightly more than 5% of all computers now run Mac, according to NetMarketShare.com. Linux is hovering just beneath 1% of the overall market share in operating systems. And although that might sound like a small number, Linux is far more than just a fringe OS. In fact, it's running in quite a few more places than you probably suspect.

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Comments (8)

caitlyn ·
I followed the link to the source of the latest 1% B.S. It doesn't specify how the numbers were obtained or from where. "There are lies, d@mn lies and statistics" seems to apply here. In fact, here is the only piece of info given: "This report contains preview data that has NOT been reviewed by Quality Assurance." Hmmm... may because there is no quality to assure.

Oh yeah, otherwise the article is pretty good, other than mixing up desktop space and server space. (Nobody really believes Linux is less that 1% including server space, do they?)
jacog ·
No, and I recall a Microsoft presentation from maybe last year-ish that estimated it a lot higher, like 40 percenti-ish higher.
dinotrac ·
caitlyn --

I don't know. Some low number including server space might be right -- but only because user-interface machines (I'm growing weary of the term "desktop" in this netbook world) outnumber servers so seriously.
Bob_Robertson ·
The myth will have to be debunked every time it comes up, otherwise people will believe the un-countered assertion.

Look what happened when Hayek didn't immediately debunk Keynes!

Dino, I'm right there with you. I'm also finding other ways to say my personal machine, rather than the "d" word.
tuxchick ·
Salma Hayek was an economist? What an amazing, multi-talented woman.
dinotrac ·
Yes, amazing. I hear she's good-looking, too.
Bob_Robertson ·
> Salma Hayek

Now where have I seen those before?
gus3 ·
"Wild, Wild West."

...and so the thread returns to FOSS...

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