Getting people into Linux

[Dave Sampson]

I'm sure this would be a tough stat to come across.... but maybe some 
basic statistics can be derived...

Check out http://www.linux-stats.org/index.php

It follows computer use of registered systems... sorta like SETI project.

Any other Stats resources?

Max Pyziur wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Sampson wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> The chat about this subject is pretty good. I will share some 
>> thoughts and experiences.
>>
>> First and foremost I am an open source geographer, so instead of 
>> convincing people to move to Linux as a rebuke against the system I 
>> try to expose other geographers and neo-geographers (all the folks 
>> that like google earth and google maps etc) to the world of free 
>> software and free data for that software. Now the projects I am 
>> interested in are all cross platform, but their ancestors are from 
>> the Linux world.
>>
>> In my journeys I have helped organize users groups and helped two 
>> like groups in Ottawa merge into one.
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Ottawa_Chapter  the success of the 
>> merge was based on the Open Geospatial foundation www.osgeo.org . the 
>> benefit of this foundation is means to rally with other people and 
>> share resources to promote open source geomatics tools.  We focus on 
>> projects, not necessarily OS's as we promote cross platform.
>>
>
>
> [... good information deleted for the sake of brevity ...]
>
> Are there any statistics which are published regularly which show the 
> adoption of Linux, both at the server and desktop levels, over the 
> last 5-10 years?
>
> Here are stats from a website which I've been running for a number of 
> years. One set of stats is from December 2006, the other from December 
> 2003.  There has been no advocacy of OS's, but the server has been 
> running some flavor of RedHat/Fedora since 2000.
>
> Dec 2006
>  1: 3747858: OS unknown
>  2: 1263906: Windows
>  3:   46073: Macintosh
>  4:   16892: Unix
>   :   16367:   Linux
>   :     273:   SunOS
>   :     129:   BSD
>   :      91:   HP-UX
>   :      25:   Other Unix
>   :       7:   IRIX
>  5:     312: WebTV
>  6:      30: OS/2
>  7:      30: RISC OS
>  8:       4: Amiga
>  9:       3: OpenVMS
> 10:       1: BeOS
>
> Dec 2003
> 1: 1507785: Windows
> 2:  564883: OS unknown
> 3:   38119: Macintosh
> 4:    9641: Unix
>  :    8400:   Linux
>  :     945:   SunOS
>  :     150:   BSD
>  :      48:   OSF1
>  :      38:   Other Unix
>  :      26:   IRIX
>  :      23:   AIX
>  :      11:   HP-UX
> 5:     530: WebTV
> 6:      90: OS/2
> 7:      48: RISC OS
> 8:       4: BeOS
>
> (The Unix section has been expanded to show more detail)
>
> Personally, there is no doubt that the Linux community is incredibly 
> active on a virtual level, as exhibited by the vitality of the key 
> projects (Apache, sendmail, Linux kernel, etc), as well as some of the 
> obscure ones (gnomad2, various Perl Modules, etc).  However, I have 
> yet to physically walk into an environment (workplace, university 
> computer lab) where you could discern non-Windows/Mac users of any 
> sort of breadth or depth.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Max Pyziur
> pyz at brama.com
> Desktop Linux user since 1998
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Guillermo Garron wrote:
>>> On 12/31/06, Norm <maillist at sios.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Guillermo.
>>>> Good to see that you are doing your part.  I don't have any 
>>>> recycled PC
>>>> available at this time and none "promised".  If I acquire  several
>>>> (enough to make shipping them worth while) are you in a position to
>>>> distribute them?
>>> Sure I can, I can work together with Universities, to make them help
>>> me distribute them.
>>> thanks a lot, and if you can that will be appreciated
>>>> Recently I found a well written howto on SSL certificates at
>>>> http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php, He does have a 
>>>> Spanish
>>>> version on line already but it may be a good quick add to your site.
>>> Thank you a lot, I will add both the English and the Spanish versions.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>
>>
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