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Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5
Amiga Gamer writes "Amiga Inc. Acting President Bill McEwen has given an update to Amiga OS5 of sorts. In a previous interview Bill had said of OS5: "The product that we are going to ship is going to be much better than OSX from Apple". "OS 5 is ahead of schedule, and we will be making public announcements concerning the product in the 4th quarter of this year.""
I was at the August meeting of the Berlin Amiga Users Group. There were 130 people there. We had to move to from the pub we started at because there were too many of us! I talked to one guy there who was in the Rotterdam Amiga Users Group, and they routinely had 90 to 100 people show up to their meetings. Those are significantly larger crowds that I've ever seen at Linux user group meetings. Amiga was always big in Europe, and still is, even many years after the demise of their mainstream products.
"OS 5 is ahead of schedule, and we will be making public announcements concerning the product in the 4th quarter of this year."
This is the man who claimed OS4 was on schedule to be released in 1999.
The release date was eventually December 2006, just days after the last licensee allowed to produce Amiga hardware lost their license.
Anyone else up for another 7 years of "It's nearly ready, really! No, we're serious this time..."
Makes Vista seem positively normal, and makes Leopard's delays look like an overnight shipping glitch.
Ubuntu passed the 8m mark abouut 9 months ago, based on the number of people updating from Ubuntu servers.
Note that updates can be cached, there are probably people sho do not update (for example because they have slow internet connection), and there are people who update from mirrors, so it is probably an undercount.
Ubutntu and Linux are growing, so the numbers are higher now
If Ubuntu alone has that many users it seems probable that desktop Linux is ahead of Mac OS's 20m+.