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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. GNU/Linux by SkipToMyLou · · Score: 0, Troll

    As long as Linux is perceived for tech-geeks, it won't be successful. We need a company like IBM to present Linux as socially acceptable and 'cool'. Only then will it be accepted by the non-pimply faced long haired linux zealots that we all are percieved as.

  2. Re:Forget Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And how does your FREEDOM feel about this, as she sits shivering out in the cold while you carouse with Steve Jobs and a orgy's worth of lawyers ?