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: 1, Troll) by fnj on Monday October 19 2015, @09:43PM
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
glibc definitely provides common services for computer programs.
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
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves