I said: > I'll see if I can get Linux stats for you. Ashley has posted an update: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html
Here's what you get from Sage if you ask for a report on OS Type (as announced in the User-Agent string) and User numbers, over the month of September 2007. This isn't exactly the data that Ashley is using but I thought it might be useful for you to see the data we see. For *.bbc.co.uk: OS Type Users % of Total Users Windows 247,012,744 88.74 Macintosh 17,353,438 6.23 Nokia 3,675,224 1.32 Liberate 2,784,762 1 SonyEricsson 2,116,766 0.76 BlackBerry 1,921,066 0.69 Motorola 1,062,323 0.38 Symbian 925,465 0.33 Samsung 802,450 0.29 LG 216,972 0.08 Orange 134,995 0.05 Sagem 104,371 0.04 TMobile 61,687 0.02 O2 39,747 0.01 Sharp 38,373 0.01 NEC 30,606 0.01 Panasonic 16,369 0.01 Linux 15,886 0.01 Sprint 13,175 0 BenQ 12,008 0 DOS 9,300 0 Philips 5,853 0 VK 3,926 0 ZTE 3,523 0 Unix 3,224 0 Sanyo 1,656 0 Toshiba 1,236 0 Siemens 1,067 0 Sun 539 0 Linux-gnu 171 0 IRIX 88 0 AIX 85 0 HP-UX 48 0 Treo 30 0 OSF1 11 0 Palm 11 0 Lobster 10 0 Nextel 2 0 Total: 278,369,207 For news.bbc.co.uk only: OS Type Users % of Total Users Windows 113,519,850 90.49 Macintosh 10,866,724 8.66 BlackBerry 363,497 0.29 SonyEricsson 180,916 0.14 Symbian 161,462 0.13 Nokia 150,007 0.12 Orange 54,518 0.04 Motorola 52,587 0.04 TMobile 22,694 0.02 Samsung 20,939 0.02 O2 11,315 0.01 NEC 9,684 0.01 LG 8,218 0.01 Sprint 7,338 0.01 Linux 6,832 0.01 Unix 2,764 0 VK 1,052 0 DOS 1,026 0 Sharp 968 0 ZTE 318 0 Sun 308 0 Sagem 265 0 Liberate 187 0 Toshiba 175 0 Sanyo 116 0 BenQ 91 0 Linux-gnu 86 0 Siemens 77 0 Philips 62 0 IRIX 49 0 AIX 42 0 HP-UX 32 0 Panasonic 25 0 Treo 10 0 OSF1 10 0 Palm 10 0 Lobster 8 0 Nextel 1 0 Total: 125,444,263 Kevin. -- Kevin Hinde Head of Software Development, Journalism BBC Future Media & Technology BC3 C1, Broadcast Centre t: 020 800 84725 m: 0771 501 2424 aim:kwdhinde - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
