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amauk
July 9th, 2009, 10:21 AM
check this out
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-FR-monthly-200807-200907

Grant A.
July 9th, 2009, 10:33 AM
Obviously a second Enlightenment Era.

monsterstack
July 9th, 2009, 10:33 AM
This came up a while ago. It might have something to do with the French Police force switching entirely to Ubuntu, although I was under the impression that it was going to be a slow change-over. Net Applications have been having some problems with their stats lately, so maybe this is related. Anyone who has any more news about this, it would be good to see it.

amauk
July 9th, 2009, 10:36 AM
I thought about the french police thing as well
but that wouldn't account for 16% of the country's population would it?

Anyone from France got any insight?

monsterstack
July 9th, 2009, 10:37 AM
I thought about the french police thing as well
but that wouldn't account for 16% of the country's population would it?

Highly doubtful. But it could account for some of it.

Giant Speck
July 9th, 2009, 10:46 AM
If you think that's odd, just look at the statistics for North Korea: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-KP-monthly-200807-200907

monsterstack
July 9th, 2009, 10:48 AM
If you think that's odd, just look at the statistics for North Korea: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-KP-monthly-200807-200907

Ha ha ha! More reason to suggest people should look at such statistics with a few thousand metric tonnes of salt.

Paqman
July 9th, 2009, 10:48 AM
There doesn't seem to be any way of checking the sample size.

Giant Speck
July 9th, 2009, 10:52 AM
Also, here is what the OP's graph looks like if you shorten the time span down to just a month:

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk122/SpecKtacle/StatCounterGlobal.jpg

It's a bit too erratic to simply be a mass migration to Linux.

amauk
July 9th, 2009, 10:53 AM
on their about page, they say the stats are generated from access logs to "over 3 million websites"

monsterstack
July 9th, 2009, 11:04 AM
I wonder if some of the world's botnets are toying with user agent identifiers to play with the figures. That would certainly be... interesting. *Removes tinfoil hat*

Still, these stat sites never identify what sites they're using as a sample. For many millions of users, Bing is the default homepage. Most other browsers default to Google. So if Bing is included in the results metrics, it could skew the results rather insanely. I can't really see Linux sites skewing the results by comparison because there are so few of us! As the saying goes, "Lies, damned lies..."

amauk
July 9th, 2009, 11:26 AM
I wonder if some of the world's botnets are toying with user agent identifiers to play with the figures. That would certainly be... interesting. *Removes tinfoil hat*
but then the results wouldn't be confined to one country, it'd be global

I'm wondering about a chain of public access computers (possibly library computers?) thats switched

I can't think of any single entity, other than a large public service, that would account for 16%

winotree
July 9th, 2009, 06:12 PM
Also, here is what the OP's graph looks like if you shorten the time span down to just a month:

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk122/SpecKtacle/StatCounterGlobal.jpg

It's a bit too erratic to simply be a mass migration to Linux.

It may just be me but don't those dates that spike coincide with the last releases of Firefox: 3.0.11 and 3.5??

EDIT - no, on second thought, I suppose not...

Ra-Hoor-Khuit
July 9th, 2009, 06:16 PM
Also, here is what the OP's graph looks like if you shorten the time span down to just a month:

[Pic]
Obviously someone in France can't make up their mind between XP and Ubuntu.

bear24rw
July 9th, 2009, 06:30 PM
look at antartica lol

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-an-monthly-200807-200907

aesis05401
July 10th, 2009, 03:42 AM
Anyone else nano the csv file on a small region? You can reverse the sample size and track usage with some detail. The Antarctica is a good one to begin with.. Kinda weird if the sample data is good... you can almost see the personnel coming and going.. a server coming online, a linux user hopping down for a few months..

Unfortunately this information is most likely low SnR due to inaccuracies in gathering the samples.

Edit: Anyone keep up on McMurdo news? I was just trying to verify whether or not they put up a new Windows 2003 server in January.

Edit2: You ever have one of those nights where a straight Google search brings up a partially redacted McMurdo server list with IP addys and server functions still in tact, but every pdf viewer you try it in barfs after pg1?

Sealbhach
July 10th, 2009, 03:47 AM
Obviously a second Enlightenment Era.

It will soon be Bastille Day.:guitar:

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