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Big Jump in Bahrain: Linux Now At 16 Percent

posted by martyb on Monday June 01 2015, @03:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the reason-unknown dept.

"gewg_" writes:

Blogger and Linux advocate Robert Pogson reports that, according to StatCounter, pageviews from machines running Linux in Bahrain jumped from 2 percent to 16 percent in less than a week.
One wonders just what's going on there.

His other graph shows that for the last 3 years there has been an uptick in worldwide Linux usage each April; that increase sustains[1] for several months then drops to a level that is slightly higher than the numbers of the previous March and begins a gentle climb until April.

[1] He notes an uncharacteristic divot in the curve this May.

We previously discussed significant Linux usage in Finland and Uruguay. Finland: Torvalds' Homeland is using Linux to be Productive

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @03:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @03:37AM (#190533)

    Web crawlers? DDOS? Some popular localized mobile browser changed their default user agent (Android is technically linux)? Theres lots of ways for more things claiming to be Linux showing up. Maybe someone got one of their IP address blocks that uses lots of linux (A university?). Is there any evidence of a decrease in some other OS?

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  • (Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Monday June 01 2015, @08:29AM

    by shrewdsheep (5215) on Monday June 01 2015, @08:29AM (#190615)

    If one OS goes up, another/others have to go down.

    However, this story must be nonsense almost by definition. OS usage changes are happening at a glacial pace therefore this observation cannot reflect true change but rather reflects sampling fluctuation/biased sampling.

    Even though submissions are scarce these stories are simple noise themselves, please do not post them.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @12:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @12:20PM (#190659)

    Or maybe some site that was important for users in Bahrain did block out Linux users, causing people to fake their user agent as "Windows", and now reversed that policy, causing people to switch their reported user agent back to Linux.