Linux Usage Doubled in Past Year
October 08, 2007 | by Nick Mokey
Although Linux still can't hold a candle to major commercial operating systems like Windows or Mac OS X, it made significant progress in adoption last year.
It looks like user-friendly Linux installations like Ubuntu really are boosting the operating system’s overall popularity – even if only from a sliver to a bigger sliver. New statistics from Market Share show that Linux’s overall footprint more than doubled from .4 percent of all surfers in December 2006, to a current .81 percent. While the shift seems insignificant as a portion of the big picture, for Linux it marks the most significant shift in acceptance on the books. According to Market Share, Linux’s market penetration stagnated at .29 percent in 2004, .31 percent in 2005 and .29 percent again at the beginning of 2006. In the Linux ecosystem, a leap to .81 percent in one year represents a major spike. As a provider of live statistics for small- and medium-sized businesses, Market Share collects its data from the visitors at more than 40,000 URLs and releases its aggregated results for free.
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Donald on Nov 12th, 2007 at 11:01 AM:
"Although Linux still can't hold a candle to major commercial operating systems like Windows or Mac OS X, it made significant progress in adoption last year." This comments by the editors or author of this articles shows their biased.
For over-all computer power and stability Linux is wonderful. For applications it is not so good, but getting better. The reason for lack of applications (commercial) is that most companies do not see Linux as a viable market, but that is their perceptions and not the reality. When programers want to stop profiteering from their work and charge reasonable fees (or none) then we will see many more applications for Linux, Windows and Mac OS computers.
Remember that Linux has next to zero (0) virus and comes complete to surf and serve the web.