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Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share
christian.einfeldt writes "Linux netbooks have captured 32% of the global netbook market, says Jeff Orr, an analyst with consumer computer research firm ABI Research. The largest share of netbook sales is in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, according to Orr. ABI's latest figures align with a statement by Dell executives in February of this year, to the effect that Linux netbooks comprised about 33% of Dell shipments of Dell Inspiron mini 9s netbooks. These data points cast doubt on claims by Microsoft that Windows XP has captured 98% of the netbook market (a figure Microsoft later revised to 93%). In an interview with DesktopLinux.com, Orr made clear that the 32% Linux netbook market share did not include either user-installed Linux or dual-boot systems, but was confined to just pre-installed Linux shipments."
It is now official. Netcraft confirms: *BSD is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
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To have a cheap, low power, home server perhaps? Also with a little bit of precaution, Linux netbooks can enable you to skip having an anti-virus running, thus speeding things up a bit, as netbooks run on tiny processors.
Face your daemons!
It would take any half brain twit to know this and this is my backup. Netbooks are small computers "Fact" ive actually seen these things and played around with them,thats a "Fact" also. Netbooks are not high end with the atom processor "Fact". Reasoning with someone with a half a brain theres alot of people who dont have that here im not mentioning names this post, well would continue a large amount of you. "Fact" I didnt get this account to post i was just fed up with it and couldnt take it, but thats the reason i read slashdot "True" It isnt because all the comments are right but its the drama of it,you see i laugh at some of the brainless comments when the person dont know wtf there talking about. Im not supporting Linux in this comment or Windows and i will point this out Windows would not be the sucess today if it were hard to use, People like easy. Me i dont give a rats ass, Im actually used to Linux all of them ive used most to see what there like and i can definatly say ubuntu is the easiest. But the true moral of the story with a 1.8ghz atom what are you really looking for, most people want it run fast i hope and the only logical reason to do that at its fulliest is to what, Some of you dont even know this thats why i come here to get the Laugh. Run the operating system that takes less to run the lightest "meaning in this case lighter is better" and that cant be argued but again you will argue even if you dont understand the size of your processor and while the larger number if its Ghz is better thats not allways the case. They got multicore processors. Some of you think ive seen this for my self with a sysinfo script first hand ok i have a quad core it was seen in script but didnt make it obvious. The reason i used the sysinfo script was to see the remarks nothing more, oh here it came, This idiot did his he had a single core processor, more mhz and he said mine is better. I was hoping he was playing around but i was just curious so i ask him a question, i ask how. So he explains it, well mine is 3.8ghz that is higher than yours, i cant argue with that he's got something there atleast he's got the concept right. But im gonna say mine is better and i can prove this, he's like thats not true explain. Then i nailed him Mine is a 4 core yours is a single core 1. he said so,he actually said that. then i actually had to link him to several pages explaining it i knew but i wanted him to work for it, He comes back and said i learnt something new, i was happy and new right then he wasnt on slashdot or he paid attention and believe the comments, he didnt argue. moral of the story, Linux runs faster on a netbook and yes you can actually do more with linux on the netbook it takes some settings. ok heres a challenge for you to try run your netbook with windows and try to play a 720p hd movie nearly impossible right. the kicker ive seen this done my friend run a 1080hd on a netbook. not not to watch it,just to see if it could be done i know how to tweak mplayer thats what he used and it ran it fine. Thats just a example, i hope you didnt buy a netbook for 200 dollars lets say in hope to play games. For what a netbook is needed for with linux you dont have to do nothing the applications are there just use them, is simply all. What did the netbook first come with "Linux" the only reason windows is even offered is because they seen a share there and went nuts they went to the extreme of offering there operating system cheap to them, then there like ok we will use windows and at that time it was windows xp and yes vista was out. This is why xp was on there and not vista, is it ovious XP is lighter. Netbook sales were good with just linux when they come out, im sure alot formatted but not to put windows on there, but the linux of there choice. now argue as you please and make some people laugh that knows this is the truth. btw i dont use words like noob troll or whatever and id expect people at my age wouldnt, if they do im worried as in they think thats cool. people my age and i hope have allready grown up with point out and bla