John Williamson wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
? dave wrote
?? The fastest computers on the planet run Linux. It is the most popular OS
?? on the planet (or soon will be). If there is a task there is an
?? application for it.
?
?
? Such outrageous claims. If you managed websites and looked at the
? server logs you would see that Windows is well ahead of anything else.
? One company told me their customers all used Macs since they were
? artists. They were shocked to find they accounted for under 10% of
? their page visits, and All versions of Linux were barely over 10%.
?
?
The figure for which OS is most common depends how you count them.

Windows is *far* ahead of anything else on the desktop.

Linux gets its numbers up by being run on many, many servers in
backrooms all over the world and in embedded systems. If you have a PVR,
for instance, there's a good chance that it runs using a Linux kernel
with custom software on top. There's an installation in Hollywood or
thereabouts that accounts for many thousands of Linux installations, as
it is used for parallel processing of movie CGI content. The kernels are
Linux, the software was written in house.

You'll know Linux is getting popular on the desktop when they start
advertising anti-virus programs for it,as that will mean it's common
enough for the black hats to be interested.


There are still plenty of servers running various versions of
Windows. If there weren't, there would be no new versions released top
the market. Now tell what the ratio of servers to users is. It's not
enough to tip the balance.


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