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[News] 'Year of the Desktop' Chorus (Idiocy) Put to Rest

  • Subject: [News] 'Year of the Desktop' Chorus (Idiocy) Put to Rest
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:42:21 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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2008 to be year of non-desktop Linux

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| Sure, we’ll be hearing about desktop Linux and the OS should manage some 
| substantial gains there, but I believe these other uses of Linux are what 
| will really highlight 2008.  
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/01/03/2008-to-be-year-of-non-desktop-linux/

2008: Not the year of the Linux desktop

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| The new year is less than a week old but the talk has already begun. Yes, we 
| are hearing that hackneyed old saw again - this will be the year of the Linux 
| desktop. Some so-called pundits say it directly, some in an indirect manner 
| but they aren't holding back.   
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15951/1148/

Linux usage on the desktop grows gradually (not over the course of a single
year). Usage still cannot be measured for many reasons.


Related:

Survey Says … Linux Desktop Is Ever More Popular

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| The first thing we can say about the Linux desktop in 2007 is that there are 
| more users than ever. The Linux Foundation 2006 survey had fewer than 10,000 
| people signing in. This year more than 20,000 Linux desktop users reported 
| in.   
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2235654,00.asp


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| Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. Novell claimed several months 
| back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for upwards of 
| 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent statements made by 
| some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are upwards of 
| 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. Microsoft has never contested the number of 
| Desktop Linux users, and if anything the deal Microsoft signed with Novell 
| was tacit agreement that Microsoft believed those numbers to be accurate.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html


Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey

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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says 
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their 
| Linux distribution of choice.  
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html


Survey: Desktop Linux use grows

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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux, 
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users 
| in the past year.  
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html


Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports

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| For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey 
| compared with fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| In those businesses and organizations that have deployed Linux desktops, 39.5 
| percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines. 
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

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