MESSAGE
| DATE | 2008-03-29 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
|
| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] GNU Market Share
|
James Allan Brady
Worth Reading?
YesNo
+4 [4 votes] Loading ... Loading ...
linux-desktop-i-want-to-believeDesktops starting with Dell have begun
being sold with Linux pre-installed, almost all of the new UMPC Eee-like
notebooks that are selling in extremely large numbers these days are
coming with Linux pre-installed, Everex is pushing Linux desktops through
Wal-Mart, and lots of new computers are getting SLED certified or some
other form of Linux certification. Add to that the increased popularity
of all things Linux, the increasing ease of use of Linux as a desktop
operating system and it has me wondering why there hasn’t been a spike
in Linux’s market share?
Linux couldn’t even beat out Windows 98 until sometime between August
20th and August 30th of last year according to W3Counter. According
to that same site, since the 10th of May last year until the 29th of
February this year Linux has only seen a .76% increase in its market
share, which still only brings it up to a market share of 2.01%.
Comparatively 2.01% is still pretty good considering that’s almost
double what Windows 98 is right now and excluding XP which still holds
the top spot, Linux’s best competitor, Windows Vista, is only sitting
at 6.48%. It still frustrates me that with all the advances in the Linux
world as far as making things useable goes and with all the new computers
being sold with Linux on them, it frustrates me that Linux still can’t
beat Windows 2000.
I can totally understand Linux not being able to beat OS X, Vista, or
XP, but it should certainly be able to beat out a version of Windows
that’s so old its usability is probably less than that of the newer
distros of Linux. Maybe with this next push of Linux notebooks including
the upcoming offerings of Asus, Acer’s Eee competitor, the CloudBook
which still hadn’t been released since these most recent figures,
and the HP2133 Linux might gain the 1.29% market share it needs to beat
Windows 2000’s 3.29% market share.
--
http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society."
"> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.<
You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one."
© Copyright for the Digital Millennium
|
|
