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Blogger and Linux advocate Robert Pogson reports via one of his many charts that, according to StatCounter, the usage rate for Linux in Gibraltar has increased dramatically.
What is it about islands[sic] that allow them to plunge into FLOSS unlike most larger countries? Here's another. Gibraltar moved from almost nothing to ~16% GNU/Linux desktops this week. High school resumed last week. Further, FreeBSD is along for the ride.
FreeBSD (0.67%) and Chrome OS GNU/Linux (1.68%) peaked on September 21. GNU/Linux began to ramp up on September 20 and is still rising (16.41%). Even "Unknown" jumped to 0.67% on September 20 and reached 0.96% yesterday. It could be Gibraltar's schools have adopted FLOSS as affordable and robust. Nearby, Malta stood at 5.42% and Reunion stood at 6.71%.
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[Ed note: Gibraltar is not an island; it "is a British Overseas Territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean" with a population of about 30,000 people.]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by davester666 on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:09AM
one person switches, and suddenly the ratio goes from 75/25 to 50/50.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @07:31AM
http://countrymeters.info/en/Gibraltar [countrymeters.info]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/aug/05/gibraltar-rock-tensions-spain [theguardian.com]
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by xav on Sunday September 27 2015, @09:44PM
A sudden 16% jump should have warned Robert Pogson that something is wrong with the sample data instead of speculating on high school Linux desktops.
Take a closer look at the graphs: http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-GI-daily-20150901-20150924 [statcounter.com]
On the 5th of september Win7 stats dropped from 52% to 34% (in favor of Win8.1) then raised to 55% the next day. It would be utterly ridiculous to conclude that thousands of Gibraltarians suddenly upgraded to Windows 8.1 and then uninstalled it to go back to Windows 7.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @10:59PM
I went back and looked at some of his other graphs. There are several that are amusing. This one because I actually did a couple searches before concluding that he actually meant Windows 8.1. http://mrpogson.com/2015/06/10/gnulinux-bests-8-1-in-uruguay-and-venezuela/ [mrpogson.com] He is obviously biased against Microsoft. I share his sentiment, but he makes himself look like a kook with that. Worse, down the page, he claims to be a retired teacher,
"About Robert Pogson
I am a retired teacher in Canada. I taught in the subject areas where I have worked for almost forty years: maths, physics, chemistry and computers. I love hunting, fishing, picking berries and mushrooms, too. "
So, he spent 40 years teaching students to do what, exactly? To manipulate graphs to support a predetermined biased opinion?
I guess we can hope that he's just gone around the bend, and he's now senile. If so, maybe he was a better teacher than his site suggests.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2015, @02:08AM
he spent 40 years teaching
Read it again.
The bulk of his career was doing applied Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics e.g. working in research labs.
After he had his homestead paid off, apparently, was when he started teaching.
As a timestamp: He arrived at his first teaching assignment to find a bunch of infected-to-the-gunwales Lose95 boxes sitting in the corner, unusable.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 27 2015, @10:54PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 28 2015, @03:35AM
You really have no clue about the rest of the world, do you? Well, this is what happens when you skip "mission" and stay a Mormon. Sorry, bro!