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Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment

Posted Nov 21, 2003 15:44 UTC (Fri) by acolyte (guest, #17081)
In reply to: Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment by einstein
Parent article: Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment

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.

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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 ?