Re: Linux's users statistics?

stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: left_coast wrote:
:> Artificer wrote:
:> :>> There is any regularly updated report where I can find worldly
:>> percentage of Linux use in term of servers, Workstation and Home users
:>> vs. others popular platforms like windows and Mac OS X?
:> :> There is no reliable stat.

: http://counter.li.org/

: (I'm not commenting on the *reliability* of those statistics. I'm just : pointing out their *availability*.)

indeed. But a group that takes measurements of 150K and then
extrapolates to -29 million- is pretty suspect, no?

That's precisely why I wanted to be clear that I wasn't commenting on the reliability of the numbers!

IOW, I fully agree with the previous poster that no reliable stats exist but I still wanted to point out the Linux Counter and let the OP decide if those numbers were better than nothing. (Maybe they're "reliable enough" for the OP's purposes.)
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