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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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  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: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.