On 31/07/15 13:32, charles wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 31 July 2015 12:17:42 UTC+1, J.B.Treadstone wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:28:05 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 31/07/15 10:24, fred wrote:

I feel the same way about Linux. In global terms its such a minority
interest. If it was so wonderful it would be cock of the walk by
this time so why would a neophyte wish to get involved with an
operating system with such a small user base.

Dunno. Not much of a user base for a Lamborghini either, but I'd take
one for free...

Wasn't much of a user base for DOS either till IBM built their PC.

Incidentally the whole desktop PC thing is in a state of collapse.

Of course since most mobiles, routers and servers are based on Linux,
you could argue that its got a higher user base than windows.

Yes. When you take into consideration /all/ aspects of computing, Linux
is by far the most used OS. It runs 68% of the Internet servers, runs
routers, runs onboard automobile computers, Smart TVs, smart phones,
supercomputers (95%), avionics, etc.

I thought it was ARM by a british company that was used most or leader in
mobile devices anyway.

ARM isn't an operating system. The company make (or at least design)
processors.

and almost everything that runs on an ARM runs a linux or derivcative
thereof



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