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Linux Reaches 1% Usage Share
je ne sais quoi writes "The April data is out for the Net Applications 'market share' survey of operating systems (more accurately referred to as a usage share). For the first time, Linux has reached 1%. This past month the Linux share increased by 0.12% which is well above the average monthly increase of 0.02%. Historically, the Net Applications estimate of market share has been lower than that of other organizations who measure this, but the abnormally large increase reported this month brings it closer to the median estimate of 1.11%. For other operating systems, Windows XP continued its slow decline by 0.64% to 62.21%, whereas Vista use is still increasing to 23.90%, but its rate of adoption is slowing. That is, this month's increase of 0.48% is well below the 12-month average increase of 0.78% and down from the peak rate of increase of 1.00% per month on average in January-February 2008. The total Windows share dropped to 87.90%. Mac OS use decreased slightly to 9.73% from 9.77%, but usage share of the iPhone and iPod Touch combined increased by 0.1%."
Bluetooth in Windows XP: /Got a generic bluetooth dongle off ebay. Don't know why it works, don't care to find out.
1) Find Drivers
2) Install Drivers
3) Reboot
4) Plug in Dongle
Bluetooth in Ubuntu:
1) Plug in Dongle
I'm not exactly sure what your point is, but keep in mind that millions of people also use Windows servers. While Netcraft confirms that Apache is the most popular server (which is not to say that all Apache servers are running Linux), it does report that there are over 67 million Microsoft-based servers out there.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
I and my friends have many Linux-based devices; I have a TomTom GPS, my friends have Linksys WRT(Can't remember the num) routers, and I do a lot of work on Linux servers that are completely headless.
That's just it. Linux itself isn't doing anything special in those instances except providing a low cost, "good enough" platform to run.... brace yourself for this one... the application needed to make the device useful. Linux isn't blazing fast, super efficient, or all powerful. In many cases it simply needs to be good enough for the task at hand, be that a GPS device, Kiosk, server, or router. Looking at it from that context, the OS really takes a back seat to the application. That's why a Linux based device is really nothing to go "wow" over.
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
The only reason that your Linux customers have no malware problems is that they don't know how to do anything as a privileged user! Pulling an OS X and taking away all of the user's power so they can't break anything is not a good policy. Users will never learn if they're locked in a sandbox all day.
Right, every six months to reproduce and they only look after the ones they have every twelve months.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"