erixoltan
November 24th, 2008, 02:29 AM
I have been looking around on Google and the web, and I can't find a clear answer to this question. Forgive me if it was asked elsewhere here, but I couldn't find it by searching.
Are there good numbers about how many computers are currently using Ubuntu (both desktop and server, and including kubuntu, xubuntu etc.)? I have seen articles claiming that Linux is "insignificant" and only 1% of non-servers use it, but that number seems to be based on the number of systems sold with Linux pre-installed.
I bought 3 computers with VISTA pre-installed, and they are all now running Ubuntu. None of them would count as part of the alleged 1%.
My computers download updates almost every day to the packages that are installed on them. It should be possible to count how many such downloads are occurring, and so it should be possible to have a rough guess about the number of computers running Ubuntu as well as packages like GNOME, KDE, Xfce and so on.
Does anybody know where to find such figures?
Are there good numbers about how many computers are currently using Ubuntu (both desktop and server, and including kubuntu, xubuntu etc.)? I have seen articles claiming that Linux is "insignificant" and only 1% of non-servers use it, but that number seems to be based on the number of systems sold with Linux pre-installed.
I bought 3 computers with VISTA pre-installed, and they are all now running Ubuntu. None of them would count as part of the alleged 1%.
My computers download updates almost every day to the packages that are installed on them. It should be possible to count how many such downloads are occurring, and so it should be possible to have a rough guess about the number of computers running Ubuntu as well as packages like GNOME, KDE, Xfce and so on.
Does anybody know where to find such figures?