Comments on: Linux Market Share Passes 1%!! http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43 Spreading Linux in the East Bay Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:58:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jean Pierre Rupp http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-1728 Jean Pierre Rupp Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:01:35 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-1728 This really confirms that the trend towards Linux on the desktop is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. We're seeing a steady growth that isn't extremely fast. The trend is a very solid one that should keep up for many years to come. It seems to be growing 50% each year. We'll have 2% in 2011, and 4% around 2013. It's still a long way to go to achieve world domination, but it's a fun challenge. This really confirms that the trend towards Linux on the desktop is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. We’re seeing a steady growth that isn’t extremely fast. The trend is a very solid one that should keep up for many years to come. It seems to be growing 50% each year. We’ll have 2% in 2011, and 4% around 2013. It’s still a long way to go to achieve world domination, but it’s a fun challenge.

]]> By: jdeslip http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-1594 jdeslip Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:45:16 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-1594 No anti-linux news allowed here! Just kidding... But, actually, in this months stats, Linux is at 1.03% ( http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8 ) - So, it has pretty much held steady. This is not a bad thing when you consider that the total desktop OS usage share is dropping overall (due to Android, iPhone and Sympian use climbing). So, desktop-linux holding its market share probably means it's desktop share is ever so slowly climbing. And if you count, Android and WebOS into the Linux market share, it has a really healthy growth going. Of course, reading too much in to these stats is probably not that good an idea ;) No anti-linux news allowed here! Just kidding… But, actually, in this months stats, Linux is at 1.03% ( http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8 ) – So, it has pretty much held steady. This is not a bad thing when you consider that the total desktop OS usage share is dropping overall (due to Android, iPhone and Sympian use climbing). So, desktop-linux holding its market share probably means it’s desktop share is ever so slowly climbing. And if you count, Android and WebOS into the Linux market share, it has a really healthy growth going.

Of course, reading too much in to these stats is probably not that good an idea ;)

]]> By: Acheter ici http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-1593 Acheter ici Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:33:40 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-1593 Since then Linux have been loosing its share though Since then Linux have been loosing its share though

]]> By: Hilary Jeffords http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-1589 Hilary Jeffords Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:33:59 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-1589 do you guys think they will upgrade this product to a better one ? do you guys think they will upgrade this product to a better one ?

]]> By: Steve Pardee http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-553 Steve Pardee Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:41:47 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-553 El Mono, which do DVB card do you have? Chances are it actually does work. The list of the supported cards by the Linux kernel can be found at http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/dvb/cards.txt and if you need any help getting it to work I will be happy to show you how to. Cheers, Steve Pardee steve@stevenPardee.net El Mono, which do DVB card do you have? Chances are it actually does work. The list of the supported cards by the Linux kernel can be found at http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/dvb/cards.txt and if you need any help getting it to work I will be happy to show you how to.

Cheers,
Steve Pardee
steve@stevenPardee.net

]]> By: FSF launches anti-Windows 7 assault - Page 3 - TechSpot OpenBoards http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-506 FSF launches anti-Windows 7 assault - Page 3 - TechSpot OpenBoards Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:08:17 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-506 [...] I hardly think so ma'am/Sir....Linux peaked at 1% of the market, and has since been declining. http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43 http://marketshare.hitslink.com/repo...qpcustom=Linux [...] [...] I hardly think so ma’am/Sir….Linux peaked at 1% of the market, and has since been declining. http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43 http://marketshare.hitslink.com/repo…qpcustom=Linux [...]

]]> By: Katie http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-476 Katie Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:56:56 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-476 @self Correction the second: I see that this site graphs Android separately from "Linux," which is confusing, since Android *is* a GNU/Linux distribution, but that's neither here nor there. It carries only 0.02% of the share, which is not terribly surprising given the considerably lower likelihood of a mobile device being used to access pages which are overwhelmingly biased toward desktop environments. They should probably relabel that "Linux" entry to "Desktop GNU/Linux Distributions" or some such to avoid confusion with Android and the like. @self
Correction the second: I see that this site graphs Android separately from “Linux,” which is confusing, since Android *is* a GNU/Linux distribution, but that’s neither here nor there. It carries only 0.02% of the share, which is not terribly surprising given the considerably lower likelihood of a mobile device being used to access pages which are overwhelmingly biased toward desktop environments.

They should probably relabel that “Linux” entry to “Desktop GNU/Linux Distributions” or some such to avoid confusion with Android and the like.

]]> By: Katie http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-475 Katie Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:51:33 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-475 @self Aaand I've totally botched the stats there. I neglected to realize that since we're talking about percentage, which has an implied and thoroughly obvious saturation bound (100%), it would indeed be a sigmoid curve on the percentage graph. Whoops! =) @self Aaand I’ve totally botched the stats there. I neglected to realize that since we’re talking about percentage, which has an implied and thoroughly obvious saturation bound (100%), it would indeed be a sigmoid curve on the percentage graph. Whoops! =)

]]> By: Katie http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-474 Katie Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:48:39 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-474 This is exceedingly good news. I suspect that the G1 and now the myTouch3G have contributed somewhat to these numbers, as has Ubuntu (and, by proxy, various similarly accessible distros like Fedora and openSUSE). With the coming of dozens of new Android devices in the next few years, I would not be surprised in the least if this trend turns out to be exponential. (Sidebar: Because the number of devices connected to the Internet is presently increasing exponentially, it is not necessary for there to be a saturation asymptote, which would make the trend sigmoid.) This is exceedingly good news. I suspect that the G1 and now the myTouch3G have contributed somewhat to these numbers, as has Ubuntu (and, by proxy, various similarly accessible distros like Fedora and openSUSE).

With the coming of dozens of new Android devices in the next few years, I would not be surprised in the least if this trend turns out to be exponential.

(Sidebar: Because the number of devices connected to the Internet is presently increasing exponentially, it is not necessary for there to be a saturation asymptote, which would make the trend sigmoid.)

]]> By: Zashkaser http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43&cpage=2#comment-439 Zashkaser Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:29:21 +0000 http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=43#comment-439 I am incredibly amused that something called “Demon Killer” comes in a juice box I am incredibly amused that something called “Demon Killer” comes in a juice box

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