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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday September 27 2015, @01:43PM
There's no place to go, that's what. I've lived on a couple islands, short term. Wait for a nice quiet evening, when all the "normal" and "sane" people are at home. Get in the car, fire it up, drive to the waterfront, and turn around. Floor it, watch a few fence posts flash by, then tramp on the brakes to avoid going into the surf on the other side of the island. If there is a circular route around the island, you can do laps in a minute or six.
Island or not, Gibraltar is a speck in the county I live in. 2.6 sq miles as opposed to 565 sq miles. I doubt that there is a county in the United States that is so small. No, I'm not doing a search to find them if they exist.
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