Windows VS Linux users
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Does anyone here have any idea what percentage of the world uses Windows and what percentage uses Linux systems? you can't forget something you never knew...
from the WAG systems Journal: 23% OSX 72% Windows 18% Linux Does that help? ;P _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I think it depends on the type of application
I agree, and it probably depends on who you ask.
Paul Conrad wrote:
and it probably depends on who you ask.
and it depends on which drive you boot, what VM managers are run, and what you qualify as a machine... _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Paul Conrad wrote:
and it probably depends on who you ask.
and it depends on which drive you boot, what VM managers are run, and what you qualify as a machine... _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
it depends on which drive you boot, what VM managers are run
Yep, The professor who taught the graduate Super Visualization course that I took a couple years ago had his machine setup with Linux and kept Windows inside VMWare. Thought that was kind of odd. I have gone the other way, Windows with Virtual PC running Linux from Virtual PC. Paul
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It depends whom you ask. If you ask a Windows user, they'll reply that 90% of the world uses Windows and 10% uses Linux. If you ask a Linux user, they'll reply that 10% use Windows and that 110% use Linux. :) Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] The America I believe in has always understood that natural harmony is only one meal away from monkey burgers. [Stan Shannon] GOOD DAY FOR: Bean counters, as the Australian Taxation Office said that prostitutes and strippers could claim tax deductions for adult toys and sexy lingerie. [Associated Press]
Chris Meech wrote:
If you ask a Linux user, they'll reply that 10% use Windows and that 110% use Linux.
But only if they're running that old Intel chip with the math flaw... :) Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Know someone who desperately needs to get a clue? Visit www.DownloadAClue.com and send them one!
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
it depends on which drive you boot, what VM managers are run
Yep, The professor who taught the graduate Super Visualization course that I took a couple years ago had his machine setup with Linux and kept Windows inside VMWare. Thought that was kind of odd. I have gone the other way, Windows with Virtual PC running Linux from Virtual PC. Paul
Paul Conrad wrote:
The professor who taught the graduate Super Visualization course that I took a couple years ago had his machine setup with Linux and kept Windows inside VMWare. Thought that was kind of odd. I have gone the other way, Windows with Virtual PC running Linux from Virtual PC.
I have a friend who runs parallels of Windows inside of a Linux Host OS, I run Linux through parallels inside of a Windows host. :) One man's err... poison and all that... :rolleyes: _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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from the WAG systems Journal: 23% OSX 72% Windows 18% Linux Does that help? ;P _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
For what systems do this apply? Desktop PC's and Servers alike? The most recent count I could find was 2004 when Linux had a 3% global market share in desktop PC's. Could that 3% actually have climbed to 18%? you can't forget something you never knew...
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Ray Cassick wrote:
Not sure how much you can trust this but... http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers\_stats.asp\[^\]
Interesting stats. I am not too sure about Linux and MAC making up such a small percentage. I personally use Windows about 80% of the time and Linux the other 20% (most of this is at the University). PJC
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How about this: Every one uses Linux, the rest Windows.
it was a joke, and you didn't get it ;P
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For what systems do this apply? Desktop PC's and Servers alike? The most recent count I could find was 2004 when Linux had a 3% global market share in desktop PC's. Could that 3% actually have climbed to 18%? you can't forget something you never knew...
evilnoodle wrote:
Could that 3% actually have climbed to 18%?
WAG is Wild err... ASP Guess.... However it is impossible to know really, because it requires a few definitions and access to some information that cannot be publically accessed. More emergency boot disks are becoming Linux because they can be shared easily, Virtual Machines are running both simultaneously, and then you get into dark systems for the military. Some computer manufacturers like SGI/Sun/IBM have dropped their own OS for Linux variations. But the buyer isn't required to keep the operating system that is installed for them on purchase (either Windows or Linux), so it is a statistic that cannot seriously be known because it is changing dynamically. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Does anyone here have any idea what percentage of the world uses Windows and what percentage uses Linux systems? you can't forget something you never knew...
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You say you use Linux about 20% of the time. May I ask you what for? I guess that your either running some kind of server or developing linux software or OS web applications? you can't forget something you never knew...
The university Computer Science department's decision to run Linux in the labs. Only one lab out of four have Windows+VS installed. I've tried to argue that a majority of software development jobs are Microsoft based.
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Remember, thats only 500 American Corporate Users. There's no way of knowing the real answer because it depends on who and where you ask. I have been in this business for 40 years. I've worked on large Univac and IBM systems, minicomputers (like Data General and DEC), and with microprocessors since their introduction in 1972 (Hey, even before Gates got into them). I have literally designed, built, and programmed systems on over a thousand different machines over the years. In America, Windows is the hands down winner for Desktop systems. This is primarily because of Microsofts marketing in the OEM manufacturing arena. They were brutal, but in the end virtually every manufacturer of any size must pre-install Windows on their Desktops before they go out the door. If they don't, they won't be allowed to do business with Microsoft. I know! I was an engineer for Unisys when Microsoft drove them completely out of the PC Manufacturing business! The server business is a little different. Servers are built to support multiple different operating systems. Some servers are shipped without any operating system at all. The differences between UNIX and Linux are virtually a moot point now. Ever since Caldera inherited the rights to the UNIX name (along with the remains of Unix Systems Labs (USL)), UNIX and Linux have been merging constantly closer together. What were the last (traditional?) UNIX systems (SVR and UnixWare based) like HP/UX and Solaris, are today primarily based on Linux kernels. Those that were of the Berkley UNIX flavor, are today generaly based on Free BSD, Net BSD, and Open BSD. Even the Macintosh, running OS/X is built on a Free BSD kernel. So is Darwin, the open-source verson of OS/X. The World Wide Web (www) was built and primarily still runs on Unix and Linux based servers. Much of the government systems (except desktops), run on UNIX and Linux. Unix and Linux are a given in the University world. Real Time and Embedded systems are a whole other world. There are more "embedded" microprocessors manufactured every year than all of the PC's in the world put together! Many use proprietary sytems for development, but Unix and Linux are the hands down winners here for "cross platform" development. When you look outside of the US, the international community has a number of other operating systems that are used to some extent. Windows, Unix and Linux however, are the dominant players. If we were just counting numbers, then China would be a major factor. Microsoft has been tr