Slashdot Mirror
Is Linux Dead?
TunkeyMicket writes "It appears MSNBC is reporting that Linux has failed as an operating system. By citing the large Linux hype as reason for Linux to be dominating the market, they draw the conclusion that the "open source" alternative has flopped as an operating system. They briefly mention the success of Linux in the server community, but really the article gives Linux as little credit as possible."
Go take a look at what most web servers on the net are running. Notice the big "MS" in front of NBC
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Linux community when recently MSNBC confirmed that Linux accounts for less than a fraction of 27 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Red Hat Linux is the most endangered of them all, having lost $4.8 million last quarter. The constant and unpleasant conflict between long time Linux advocates Linus Tordvalds and Richard Stallman only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any question doubt: Red Hat Linuxis continuing its slow downward spiral into darkness.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Debian leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Debian. How many users of Slackware are there? Let's see. The number of Debian versus Slackware posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Slackware users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Slackware posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put Red Hat at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Red Hat users. This is consistent with the number of Red Hat Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of SCO, abysmal sales and so on, OpenServer went out of business and was taken over by Caldera who sell another troubled OS. Now Caldera is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.
Fact: Linux is dead
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Heh.
Hehehe....
Hehehe heheeh heh eheheheehe hehehe...
Hahahah ahahahaa ahahahh ahahahahh hah ahhaa haahaha hahaahaha haahaa ha hah ha hah haha hah aha aahaaha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aha aahaaa ahaa haa aahhaaha ahahhhahaa HAHAAAHAAHAHAHH
BWAHAHAHAAAHAAAHAAAAHAAAHAAAHA!!!!!
Liberty in your lifetime
Jesus, you Linux Zealots really blow. Always think you're so clever eh?
First, it's 'furor'.
Check this out - hard luck pedant!
Do they give you comp time over at Microsoft for trolling Slashdot? I'm just curious.
I know this is really difficult for you guys to grasp, so read this s l o w l y. Slashdot is a discussion site. Opinions you disagree with are not necessarily 'trolls'. A 'troll' is a post designed to wind up other people and attract many replies for the sake of attracting many replies.
Also, when I post a pro-Microsoft opinion, I am 'trolling' - when you post your anti-Microsoft reply - you mock me for it. Does you company pay you to put down Microsoft?
Wow its just like CNN and the goverment!!