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Where's GNU/Linux Usage Headed?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-will-the-madness-end dept.

deego writes: "Here are the plots of GNU/Linux number of users, on a regular scale , and on a log scale . Though projections have no real bearing on what actually turns out to be the numbers, they are fun :). The final projections from the two plots would seem to be a bit different to the naked eye. So, is GNU/Linx usage asymptotically headed towards, say 'all users' (first plot), or 'half a billion users' (second plot)?"

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  1. MyOS by scotch · · Score: 5, Funny
    I wrote an operating system yesterday. Today, my friend started using it as well. Based on this growth rate, every person on the planet will be using MyOS by the end of september.

    Wow!

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    1. Re:MyOS by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

      If current trends continue, I will live forever!

  2. Re:MyOS (and Elvis) by jc42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some time in the early 90's, someone calculated that if the trend at the time continued, by 2020 three quarters of the world's population would be Elvis imitators.

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    Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
  3. Re:postscript by nutznboltz · · Score: 2, Funny

    But everybody should be running GNU and X11. There's no excuse. :)

  4. Linx usage is up! by HeavensTrash · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, is GNU/Linx usage asymptotically headed towards, say 'all users' (first plot),

    Yes, eventually all people will be using linx. With it's frame support, it is highly superior to the the older, yet more established lynx.

  5. Mmm..extrapolation.. by ekidder · · Score: 5, Funny
    I love extrapolations. I do. They let you determine things which may have no effect on reality. I refer you to this. I wish I knew the author. I first saw it on Usenet long ago.

    Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you can calculate that 85 million years ago, the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs...the tallest ones, anyway.

  6. Re:hello by The+Bungi · · Score: 2, Funny
    Where do you people come from? I mean - is there some sort of obscure, far away gigantic cavernous research facility where they keep massive test tubes filled with copies of Free As In Beer (TM) advocate clones who can't spell to save their lives? And then periodically release them to the world armed with the Slackware ISOs, a "First Post" T-shirt, a printed copy of the Halloween document and a modem?

    Is this where the GNU "Black Ops" budget goes?

  7. Resurgence of BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that Apple is shipping more BSD boxes than all the other incompatible fragmented *linux distributions combined, *linux is finally dying from greed and overcommercialization. It time we banded together and start working on the truly free BSD source code again. It has proved commercially viable and lives on in both commercial Unix(tm) offerings like Solaris and AIX, as well as truly free source offerings like FreeBSD and NetBSD. *linux is an evolutionary dead end which has cost the computing world a lot of wasted effort re-implementing what's already been implemented.

  8. Samurai accountant? by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slightly off topic, but when I read this, my weird mind remembered the samurai accountant skit from old SNL. He's explaining performace, which has a peaked graph, up then down. Someone questions that, why does it go down? Belushi takes out his sword and cuts the graph out at the peak. it all goes up. Everybody is satisfied.

    67.7234597% of statistics are made up.