Did your 3% Desktop Linux adoption rate come from a Steve Ballmer survey? LOL Did the survey cover only the USA, or was it a world wide adoption rate including EU, Asia, ME, Africa, and South American adoptions.
The answer to the question about which OS a computer is running is becoming blurred with the the innovations in virtualization, the OS irrelevance and OS agnostics of the internet, OS irrelevance in mobile devices, and the irrelevance of thin client OS in cloud computing, (eg applications as a service). The Linux OS is very prevalent in mobile devices like cell phone, GPS blackberry, etc; because, Linux is modular, and can be compiled into a very small kernel, which save on the cost for memory. Many desktops running the windows OS act as thin clients when connected to the web, or as a windows clients connected to a Linux terminal server. The real application is likely running on a Linux server somewhere on the internet, and the application with its data is actually running in Linux with the thin client as the standard output. In this scenario, I would say the desktop, for all intent and purposes, is really consuming or running a Linux OS . All the action today is in the internet, and Linux is the king of the internet. That's where the action is. Also, I found this excerpt: #-------------------------- Linux has more than a 3% market share. Considering every market share is a for an OS that was purchased or for a OS machine that a support fee was paid for. With Linux however that is not measurable in reality for two reasons. First reason is the market share of computers that were orginally a MS machine but has then been made a duel-boot with a linux distro or only a linux machine. While the next reason this can not be measured is for the open source reason, for every "purchased" version of linux how many machine will the company run without a license or without customer service contracts? #------------------------- Regards, LelandJ Michael Madigan wrote: > The proof lies in the fact that only about 3% of the desktops run Linux. If > it was as truly great as some people suggest, we could at least expect the > same market penetration as Firefox, which was born much later. > > Linux is great for servers and embedded systems, but not for your average > desktop. > > > --- On Fri, 5/15/09, Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Allen <[email protected]> >> Subject: RE: [NF] Trying Debian >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 5:15 PM >> Well lets face it you need to >> convince more than just me. I still say that >> although Linux has made leaps it is still not ready for big >> time. >> I don't think its dishonest to say so either. That's just >> plain daft. I do >> not believe Linux is really a good thing for normal users. >> Yes if all you >> want is a browser and email its fine, A server too as long >> as you don't want >> to run .net. >> Sorry but until it grows up so you don't need gobbledegook >> to get it to do >> something I cant see it happening. And the number of >> different version where >> you need to download a program depending on the version >> does not help. >> Lets face it anything will be easier to use if you spend >> enough time on it. >> Ok except Microsoft exchange. But I cant see a windows >> beater. >> Al >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On >> Behalf Of Tracy Pearson >> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:54 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: RE: [NF] Trying Debian >> >> Ubuntu Server PIII 256 MB RAM - 15 minutes at the >> workstation. ALL other >> configuration done from some other location. (Like the from >> a laptop in the >> easy chair, but I have worked with unix varieties for >> several years) >> >> Windows Server 2+ hours at the workstation, and it still >> needs stuff! >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Allen >> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 4:18 PM >> >> My point was that Linux is so hard to use for most people >> that it will not >> be big time. Not knocking it can do the same things as >> windows, its very >> capable but a pig to set up. Only thing harder to set up is >> Microsoft's >> exchange sever which is a big pile of poo. >> Al >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On >> Behalf Of Leland F. Jackson, CPA >> >> A toy rocket with wheels made out of a block of wood is >> easy to play with >> and fun, but its not very functional. A space rocket >> designed by >> aeronautical engineers and made by NASA is very complex, >> but the complexity >> is necessary to travel in space. LOL >> >> Simplicity of itself should not be the Holy Grail of an OS, >> but the OS >> should be as simple as possible given the complexities of >> what the OS is >> designed to do, but no simpler. >> >> Regards, >> >> LelandJ >> >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
