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Linux Usage on Personal Computers Exceeds 5 Percent in North America

posted by janrinok on Monday October 19 2015, @05:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the upward-trend dept.

"gewg_" writes:

With another of his graphs derived from StatCounter data, blogger and Linux advocate Robert Pogson reports

It was only a few years ago that the sycophants of M$ were trumpeting that */Linux was struggling to reach ~1% share of the desktop anywhere. Many of those were in USA.

Well, the chickens have come home to roost in The Year Of The Linux Desktop. */Linux has ~5% share. Are we there yet? Nope. FLOSS is still going places and growing stronger every year. Classical GNU/Linux grew rapidly until mid-year when Android/Unknown and Chrome OS took up slack. It's all good.

I would have said "He who laughs last laughs best" but, hey, it's his blog.
...and remembering how Chromebooks dominated the sales figures last Christmas, I can't wait to see how the SteamBox sales go this Christmas.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @07:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @07:19PM (#251958)

    Linux is an "operating system".

    Linux is a kernel.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by fnj on Monday October 19 2015, @09:43PM

    by fnj (1654) on Monday October 19 2015, @09:43PM (#252065)

    Linux is a kernel.

    Bullshit. You have no idea what "operating system" means [wikipedia.org]: "An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs."

    GNU is a collection of computer programs.

    "Informative", my ass, retard mod.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday October 19 2015, @10:46PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday October 19 2015, @10:46PM (#252088) Journal

      glibc definitely provides common services for computer programs.

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      The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:08AM

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:08AM (#252216) Homepage
      Part of an OS is the user interface. Bash and the core gnu tools are a user interface. Almost every linux system ships with them, and therefore their OS is "GNU/Linux". Sure, if you use busybox and dietlibc or similar, you're free of GNU, but otherwise not.
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  • (Score: 2) by NickFortune on Tuesday October 20 2015, @10:30AM

    by NickFortune (3267) on Tuesday October 20 2015, @10:30AM (#252229)

    I think you'll find the term is overloaded and used to refer to both the Kernel and the O/S distributions commonly built around that kernel.