Linux growth

[infamousrev]

I made some graph of linux growth, and figured I might as well share it.

Here it is:


<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.97%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2009-08-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.02%</td>

wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2009-07-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.11%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2009-06-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.13%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2009-05-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.16%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2009-04-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.10%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2009-03-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.13%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2009-02-28 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.06%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2009-01-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.13%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-12-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.11%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-11-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.09%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-10-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.99%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-09-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.00%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-08-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.91%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-07-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.95%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-06-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.95%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-05-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.89%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-04-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.02%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-03-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">2.01%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-02-29 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.84%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2008-01-31 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.77%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-12-01 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.74%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-11-10 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.75%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-10-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.37%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-09-20 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.34%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-08-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.32%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-07-30 | grep Linux -A1

<td class="item">Linux</td>
<td class="pct">1.30%</td>
Results of:
wget -qO - http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007-06-30 | grep Linux -A1

[SuperSonic4]

wtf?

Clarification please?

[lukjad]

I made some graph of linux growth, and figured I might as well share it.

Here it is:

Eh.

[infamousrev]

These are the global statistics of linux usage, measured by User agent

[howefield]

And the graph is where exactly ?

[infamousrev]

Graph is maybe a wrong word for it, more like command output,

It can be ported to a visual graph with few commands though,

However I prefer this output because it allows people to verify the output unlike many of the graphs on the web

[Robin Nixon]

Basically in June 2006 Linux usage was 1.30%, and in August 2009 it was 1.93% - a 48% increase in 3 and a bit years.

Here's a graph in which the top line represents searches for Linux at Google and the bottom for Ubuntu...

http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=ubuntu,linux&graph=weekly_img&sa=N

You might be interested to see it vs Windows Vista, where Ubuntu is the top line...

http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=ubuntu,windows+vista&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&sort=0&sa=N

[philinux]

Is this for the home desktop use?

[howefield]

Verifiable but not necessarily accurate ?

Method of testing may have changed over the period of your stats.

[23meg]

Moved to Community Cafe.

[SuperSonic4]

So basically linux has grown from a negligible amount to a slightly higher negligible amount?

Percentage growths are highly misleading at best, if the original reference is small and change will become a big percentage change.

For example if Windows were to lose 50% of customers it's share would fall from 90% to 45%

[khelben1979]

I'm sceptical regarding those figures, but it was a nice diagram. :)

[Namtabmai]

These are the global statistics of linux usage, measured by User agent

Please quote your sources more clearly at the start.

Your sources are from w3schools log files using user-agents so people should take that into account when looking at these statistics.

[NormanFLinux]

With the market share it has, I'm surprised Dell is still supporting it. They do have a forum here, which speaks volumes about their on-going commitment to Linux.