In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb.
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on Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:01:46 -0400
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> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:27:50 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Yes, every so-called 'survey'. It's just one among the many reasons why these
>> stats cannot be trusted. See:
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> Except when the stats show Linux in good fashion and then magically Linux
> market share can suddenly be measured.
Please indicate how the following can be accurately
measured, and what the measurement should be.
Do *not* include self-selected surveys.
[1] A Linux native desktop box, connected to the Internet.
(This one should be a gimme.)
[2] A Linux native desktop box, *not* connected to the Internet
(though it might be connected to a corporate WAN).
[3] A Linux multiboot desktop box.
[4] A coLinux or other such installation. (www.colinux.org)
[5] A Windows, MacOSX, or other such box running Linux in VmWare,
QEMU, or other such emulation software.
[6] A Linux/MACOSX EFI splitboot. This apparently is
possible; one core runs one OS and another core runs
the other. Presumably a hotkey can switch between
them, and there is a well-defined communications system
between the two.
[7] A Linux native desktop box running several VmWare, QEMU or UML
instances, each running a Linux kernel.
[8] A Linux native desktop box running several VmWare or QEMU instances, each
running a Windows image (with appropriate licensing), a FreeBSD
image, a HURD image, a ReactOS image, or another non-Linux image.
[9] A Linux native desktop box which runs WinE and Windows software
such as Microsoft Exchange, IE, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
[10] A Linux native desktop box which is serving as a firewall for
downstream Windows boxes.
[11] A Linux native server box, connected to the Internet.
(For purposes of this discussion, a server box is a box
primarily intended to near-simultaneously service
multiple users. Things do get very fuzzy here.)
[12] A Linux native server box, not connected to the Internet
(but connected to a corporate WAN).
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