+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted May 1, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted May 1, 2009 Linux Breaks 1% on the ClientLinux usage share on client devices has surpassed 1% for the first time in our tracking. Linux has been successful primarily as a server operating system, but client usage share has not kept pace with server share Linux has reached this important milestone on the client as Linux-based systems have become more functional, easier to use, and pre-installed on computers from vendors like Dell. Source: Net Applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasethebase Reporter Posted May 1, 2009 Reporter Share Posted May 1, 2009 Interesting to see that the iPhone and iPod Touch are classed as two different OSes, yet they both run under the same one. Good going for Linux though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob21 Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 IT'S THE YEAR OF LINUX!!!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapadlo Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Only took nearly 50 years. P.S. That is pretty shocking, Ipod and IPhone together pretty much make up the linux market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!?@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted May 1, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 1, 2009 Only took nearly 50 years.... You mean 18 since it was even announced by Linus Torvalds that he wanted to create an OS. 1.02% now 0.68% in May 2008 0.43% in May 2007 That's still miniscule, but a 50% increase in usage year over year for the past several years. By 2020, it might be 5%! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapadlo Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 You mean 18 since it was even announced by Linus Torvalds that he wanted to create an OS.<snip> I was thinking more BSD/Unix terms, '73, so that would be 36 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted May 1, 2009 Author Subscriber² Share Posted May 1, 2009 I was thinking more BSD/Unix terms, '73, so that would be 36 years. UNIX was originally developed in 1969, which makes it 40 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.r9 Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 If companies and OEM's start issuing drivers+support, I think the 5% figure might become a reality sooner than later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C++ Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Only took nearly 50 years.P.S. That is pretty shocking, Ipod and IPhone together pretty much make up the linux market. You call less than 69% "pretty much"? Glad to see the UK math curriculum is still going strong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapadlo Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 (edited) You call less than 69% "pretty much"? Glad to see the UK math curriculum is still going strong... Good point, but I couldn't help but noticing, isn't 0.15 + 0.55 = 0.70%? P.S. UNIX was originally developed in 1969, which makes it 40 years. I will be quiet now, my knowledge of Unix history isn't great, only meant it as a joke. Edited May 1, 2009 by Zapadlo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C++ Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Good point, but I couldn't help but noticing, isn't 0.15 + 0.55 = 0.70%? It's 70% of 1, mate. The chart has Linux usage as 1.02. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted May 1, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 1, 2009 Hi there, I'm a Mac and I'm a Linux... Hey Mac, I hear you arn't so hot anymore? Yes Linux... Your steller marketing and sales have pushed me into oblivi..... *breaks out laughing* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapadlo Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 It's 70% of 1, mate. The chart has Linux usage as 1.02. Thats it, I'm quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C++ Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Thats it, I'm quiet. If it makes you feel any better, you've conceded so gracefully that I almost feel guilty for pointing it out in the first place. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted May 1, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 1, 2009 Hi there, I'm a Mac and I'm a Linux... Hey Mac, I hear you arn't so hot anymore? Yes Linux... Your steller marketing and sales have pushed me into oblivi..... *breaks out laughing* :laugh: That reminds me of those funny PC/Mac commerical spoofs that had the dorky guy as Linux. (and once as BSD, which was really hilarious!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarpraz Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 Not sure I believe their figures as it's putus the Mac at nearly 10% which I think is rather higher than most estimates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I will be quiet now, my knowledge of Unix history isn't great, only meant it as a joke. I dare you to actually read the simplified *n?x|*BSD|Plan9|Whatever history and not look like Stallman in that photo. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapadlo Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I read this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budious Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 I read this. I used that as source once for a paper on Unix (and like) operating systems, needless to say, I got an A ;) Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie presented the first Unix paper at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles at Purdue University in November 1973. Professor Bob Fabry, of the University of California at Berkeley, was in attendance and immediately became interested in obtaining a copy of the system to experiment with at Berkeley.At the time, Berkeley had only large mainframe computer systems doing batch processing, so the first order of business was to get a PDP-11/45 suitable for running with the then-current Version 4 of Unix.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted May 2, 2009 Member Share Posted May 2, 2009 My first reaction was to laugh as well. However, if you think about it, Linux is a remarkable achievement. It is a volunteer effort that has almost no support from hardware and software companies, and yet Linux persists on and reverse engineers and makes do and somehow putters on. Even if it never "wins" the OS Wars, it will always be there, getting better and better. It's a truly universally internet effort. I congratulate them on their 1%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sujmano Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 yea i like the look of some of the linux distros but i personally think their are to many variations, each different distro has its positives and negatives, think the main problem is the lack of awarness amongst the community at large, at work i used to get a lot of people returning their laptops with linux purely because they claimed they could not open their MS office files when their are free alternatives avaliable on linux. Routinely hear people tell me that word doesn't work on my macbook pro because its not a windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted May 2, 2009 Veteran Share Posted May 2, 2009 ... It is a volunteer effort that has almost no support from hardware and software companies...Not quite true. ;)http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publication...development.php The top 10 contributors, including the groups "unknown" and "none" make up over 75% of the total contributions to the kernel. It is worth noting that, even if one assumes that all of the "unknown" contributors were working on their own time, over 70% of all kernel development is demonstrably done by developers who are being paid for their work. Also remember that this is just a measurement as it is being used to browse the web. It does not count servers (where Linux is very significant), nor most embedded devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syanide Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 My first reaction was to laugh as well. However, if you think about it, Linux is a remarkable achievement. It is a volunteer effort that has almost no support from hardware and software companies, and yet Linux persists on and reverse engineers and makes do and somehow putters on. Even if it never "wins" the OS Wars, it will always be there, getting better and better. It's a truly universally internet effort. I congratulate them on their 1%. Yeah, you put it pretty well. And the goal will never be to 'win the OS wars', rather than providing a working free alternative. I still hope for a few %'s more, simply so that support would get better, in terms of drivers and such, but other than that, I don't really care about market share, serves me (almost always) well enough. Speaking of Linux and usage, today I converted my friend's old home PC to a Xubuntu system, it induced it a much needed fresh life into it. Yaaaaay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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