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Where Linux Gained Ground in 2007

Posted by timothy on from the win-friends-influence-processors dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "Computer scientist and media maven Roy Schestowitz takes a look at platforms where GNU Linux gained the most ground in 2007. In a thorough review which is the first of a two-part series, Schestowitz looks at trends in supercomputers, mobile phones, desktops, low-end laptops and tablets, consoles, media players and set-top boxes. Schestowitz finds that GNU Linux solidified its dominant grip on supercomputers; made huge gains in low-end laptops and tablets; won major OEM and retail support on the desktop; gained new entries into game consoles; and also spawned new businesses in set-top boxes while holding its ground in pre-existing product lines. He sums it all up by saying that '2007 will be remembered as the year when GNU/Linux became not only available, but also properly preinstalled on desktops and laptops by the world's largest companies.'"

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  1. F40PH Factor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If it doesn't run on the F40PH, it doesn't matter.

  2. First Post by ultramkancool · · Score: -1, Troll

    ??? Maybe.

  3. Re:I sense some bias... by fat_mike · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know where those numbers come from? Zealots.

    I haven't seen a single person install Linux all year.

    You know what I see.

    Big damn Blade servers running non-Linux OS's using Linux variants in a virtual machine setting.

    1993-200* was the year of Linux. Nobody cares anymore. We all learned our lesson 8 years ago.

    Fuck talking about 15 year old technology and move on. Watching a penguin slide down a hill with hard as shit controls and crappy graphics while calling it "Groundbreaking" does not make me believer. Nor does OpenOffice, or Fire "Give me memory...what, you only have 600gigs? I'll eat your pagefile then!!!!!!!" Fox or Mplayer with all the fucking plugins you have to install.

    Ubuntu = Vista Linux - I don't want to have to supply a password for every thing I want to do. Who thought that was a good idea?

  4. Re:OSX... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's a lot of words just to say "I'm gay."

  5. Re:OSX... by skeeto · · Score: 0, Troll

    Switching from Linux to OSX [...] ranks up there as one of the largest impacts, for the better [...]. Now, I just tell people to go buy a Mac and let the computer work for you instead of having to learn (what is to the lay-person) a bunch of voodoo magic.

    I can share my operating system and all of the installed software with my friends. You can not.

    I win.

  6. Linux FTW!!!! by advocate_one · · Score: 1, Troll

    I took the hard disk out of my broken Packard Bell laptop (daughter had spilled cola over it and it refused to work again) and put it into my Sony VAIO laptop... started it up and it booted perfectly into KDE... absolutely no problems at all... and all the hardware was different... different mobo chipset, different processor, different graphics card.

    We were able to rescue all her data and coursework that she'd been working on when the accident occurred...

    Out of curiosity. when I tried to boot the windows XP on the other partition it blackscreened... with a cryptic FATAL error code...

    Ubuntu Linux 1 : Microsoft XP 0

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