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Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deploymentLindows.com announces a 30,000 system deploymentPosted Nov 21, 2003 2:12 UTC (Fri) by dbhost (guest, #3461)In reply to: Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment by mmarq Parent article: Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment Okay check this out. Microsoft Operating Systems / Office Suites are installed on a known quantity of big name boxes right? And they know how many white box copies of Winderz eXPee or whatnot they sell, and they know how much retail they do. They also assume, let's say 25% installed base pirated just for good measure. Linux, gets downloaded by user A, user A is a good, law abiding citizen who doesn't want to pirate software, so he burns 10 copies off and gives it to his friends, who in turn burn 10 copies off, and so on and so on like the old shampoo ad on TV. How many copies of Linux get registered anywhere? Chances are 10% of machines installed are actually counted somewhere like Linux Counter, or from the distribution. So how do we count? Web trackers? Well I can tell you if that's the case, according to my web server Linux + Mozilla has a 90+ percent installed base. And who can argue those numbers right? So to boil it down to basics, the big boys are going to brag their numbers up and trash talk the competition down. So what? In the mean time I STILL don't have the monthly major virus outbreaks. And forget software license tracking...
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Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment Posted Nov 21, 2003 2:30 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] LOL I run a fansite (nothing to do with linux) and according to our web server stats, linux users account for 56% of the hits on the site - just to put things in perspective...
Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment Posted Nov 21, 2003 15:44 UTC (Fri) by acolyte (guest, #17081) [Link] I did a quick informal check on one of our archived access_logs for yesterday.wc -l access_log.1 4193831 grep -c MSIE access_log.1 4007633 grep -i linux access_log.1 5472 Now I knoe that this is not very exact, and it only reflects raw hits and not unique visitors, but it's still a sad thing.
Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment Posted Nov 21, 2003 19:40 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] But accounting that the majority of Linux deploiments, because of entreprise acceptance and the typical tech aware linux user, are most probably behind a firewall with NAT,... how can you be sure of the quantity of -"single machines"- connected to those gateways ?The majority of windows users are not behind no proper security because they were educated to be sheep ready to be sheared... so the propotion most probabily is not correct. And not to mention, most probabily (i dont know, i've to check), that modules like LSM and grsecurity have mechanisms to prevent OS fingerprinting...
Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment Posted Nov 21, 2003 19:45 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] Better, those routers with HUB + NAT so populer among small medium users and entreprises do not account as a Linux box ( even if they are running a derivative Linux code), do they ?
Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment Posted Nov 21, 2003 16:37 UTC (Fri) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] I'm currently working for an ISP, and we're getting about 1% of our hits from Linux systems.If it's any comfort, that's about 3 times as many as OS/2... :-|
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