Chuck Swiger wrote: > Anyway, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems > > "Web client stats suggest that Microsoft Windows has about an > 88% share, Apple Mac OS 7% and Linux 1%. > The correlation between desktop share and web client share > is being increasingly challenged by the rise of mobile web > access, which rose through 1% in 2009 and 4% in 2010." > > I don't think anyone would debate that Windows boxes are the > largest users of NTP as clients, but I daresay that the > breakdown of NTP _servers_ by platform would show a lot more > FreeBSD (+ NetBSD/OpenBSD/etc) and Solaris boxes then what > desktop client browsing stats might indicate, likely followed > by MacOS X and Linux....
I would guess there are a few hundred million appliances with NTP clients (and many that serve as well). Likely a large percentage of those embedded OS are Linux, however VX Works, ThreadX, QNX, Windows CE, likely also have large market share. -- E-Mail Sent to this address <[email protected]> will be added to the BlackLists. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
