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OS X Vs. Linux On The Desktop

Posted by Hemos on from the age-old-question dept.

saintlupus writes: "There's an interesting article about the recent web browsing stats of Linux by Charles Moore, a fairly well-known web journalist in the Mac community. He asks whether OS X is the deathblow to Linux in the desktop and scientific computing markets. He also touches on the perennial "I'll run it on my Athlon or not at all" mindset of current Lintel hardware owners. Definitely worth a read." The article that Charles uses as his jumping point is the recent stats on Linux on the desktop. That article cites .24%, but Charles article has some pieces on why that number could be wrong.

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  1. More browser-based OS lie^H^H^Hstatistics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I decided to do my own little research on OS statistics
    based on hits to two non-biased (OS-wise) websites: an anime
    site I run (www.reimeika.ca), and the Math Department
    website at University of Toronto (www.math.utoronto.ca).
    The following results are completely unscientific, make
    of them what you will:

    reimeika:
    linux ---> 3.91%
    mac ---> 4.46%
    win ---> 84.10%
    other ---> 7.53%

    utoronto:
    linux ---> 3.24%
    mac ---> 2.75%
    win ---> 75.84%
    other ---> 18.17%

    These stats are for the last 22 days.

  2. Slashdot's Numbers by rbeattie · · Score: 5, Interesting


    I'd like to see the number of Linux users browsing Slashdot. Just to see what a "utopian" Linux future looked like...

    -Russ

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    Me