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

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) 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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