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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. slightly diffrent, but also usefull by ealar+dlanvuli · · Score: 5, Informative

    mail from "Barry Schnitt"
    Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:49:14 -0700
    to "Sean Fritz"
    cc
    subject Re: Zeitgeist item suggestion
    memo Dear Sean,

    We continue to update, expand and improve the Google Zeitgeist. Thank you
    for you suggestion. For now, I have included the June percentages for
    browsers below. If you have any further questions, please let me know.

    Browsers
    --------------
    MS 6.0--37
    MS 5.5--25
    MS 5.0--25
    MS 4.0--2
    Net 4.x--4
    Other--7

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    1. Re:slightly diffrent, but also usefull by aminorex · · Score: 3, Informative

      The problem with these numbers is that many browsers
      are forced to announce themselves at windows, as
      internet exploder, in order to gain access to
      some content of interest.

      The statistics are *reported* platforms. There is
      a strong motivation for linux users to lie in
      their reports.

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  2. Re:not to mention... by vsync64 · · Score: 4, Informative
    These graphs consist of text and vector drawings. Why on earth would you suggest that PNG, a raster image file format, is at all appropriate? Secondly, Mozilla should easily let you set up what we in the biz call a "helper app". This will let you single-left-click and have the document automatically appear in the appropriate viewer.

    I do agree, however, that raw PostScript is perhaps not the most appropriate format. May I suggest PDF? It's basically a wrapper for a large subset of PostScript, and there are viewers for most every platform. It also has compression built-in.

    Personally, I'm just wondering why 2 images with no surrounding document for context, and no real discussion rather than a retarded blurb in italics would be regarded as an "article".

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  3. Re:postscript by nutznboltz · · Score: 2, Informative

    What can a microsoft peon like myself view a postscript file with?

    What you're not running CygWin with XFree86 and GNU ghostscript on your Windows box?

    While running Windows go to those web sites and click on "Install Now" on each of them to run setup for each free product. If you have enough disk space you will eventually have the X Window System and a UNIX emulator running on your box. To update the system at a later date just use "install now" again.

  4. Re:not to mention... by kilrogg · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should install "plugger", it allows a great deal of apps to act as pluggins for Mozilla.

  5. Forget Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I just switched completely to MacOS X. Why do I need Linux when I can run all of the apps I normally use, plus Photoshop and Word natively? And you can't beat the OSX GUI.

  6. Did you forget the Linux Counter? by NKJensen · · Score: 2, Informative

    This site has much more reliable data

    Best regards from Linux user #127040...

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