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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: 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.