Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment [LWN.net]

Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment

Posted Nov 21, 2003 16:25 UTC (Fri) by XERC (guest, #14626)
Parent article: Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment

Well, it's difficult to count Operating System deployments. For instance, even if we exclude sights like www.microsoft.com, www.kernel.org, www.freebsd.org, www.aol.com, the sight visitors depend on the sight.

Technical sights are probably more likely to be visited by free software geeks, hardware sights by hadware geeks(Yep, chip manufacturers still don't admit the existance of free software. Xlinix boasts with their ISE, but it used to run on wine, is closed software and is not even downloadable from their sight.). Some sort of pritney spears, Madonna or other stupid amusement's sights are more likely to have M$ Win(and lose) users. Not to mention the fact, that most of the business(wo)men use M$ Internet Explo(de)rer at work, as it's the defoult. And how many systems notify of it's operating system anyway?

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Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment

Posted Nov 21, 2003 17:09 UTC (Fri) by tspuhler (guest, #17086) [Link]

I am the administrator of a Choir WEB site running on Geocities and 99%
are Windows clients with 95% using a version of IE. Sad!
However, the statictics for the conducter page has many MAC users!
(around 10+%)

Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment

Posted Nov 21, 2003 20:23 UTC (Fri) by borthner (guest, #4277) [Link]

One other factor which skews web server logs - many browsers (as for example, Mozilla, Firebird, Opera, KHTML) allow the user to change the identification string sent out by the browser. One convenient way to gain access to brain-dead sites which want to limit access to MSIE browsers is to mimic the identification string of MSIE on Windows. I often have my Firebird set to show MSIE 6 on Windows XP because it is the only way I can access certain websites. Even when I'm running Linux, it looks to the web server logs as if I'm running Windows XP.