When I first heard of Linux, it was because of a very insisting friend of mine that I met in a LAN party I was invited to. Right then, I just didn't care to involve in installing Linux as I felt I didn't have the time.
Odly, over the years, his persistence made the idea of using Linux grow on me. To the point that I'm now an Arch user. Up to a few years, I alway wondered if my choice of running Linux was a wise choice. Of course I prefered my experience under Linux, than what I had even in Win7, so that reinforced my decision, but still... (Win7 is a good OS, I just prefer Linux. I doubt I'll realy give win8 a try)
But now, I see that a big bunch of people are getting their needs filled by Linux. Industries notice Linux elsewhere then on the servers. Games makers are noticing a new platform, one which they can participate in the development (look at Valve). I don't know where this is going, but it's fun to watch.
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back in 1996 through to 2001 I was doing some IT course at a tech college and one of the guest lecturers there was involved in work on the Linux kernel, amongst other things. At one presentation he showed us industry magazines and statistics from the manufacturing and appliance industry to show how special variants of Linux was in over two billion, yes billion, devices around the world and used to run things from manufacturing milling machines to toasters, fridges, dvd players and recorders, just about any household goods with a built in computing capability had Linux in it as it was smaller and cheaper. he even demonstrated how he'd hacked his imported TIVO to send emails to the things to pass messages to his family from his phone via his computer while on the way home.
Now this all makes me wonder how the people making up the 1% of business use is Linux statistics come by that figure as we all know Microsoft Windows is NOT on or in 200 billion devices world wide.
Now this all makes me wonder how the people making up the 1% of business use is Linux statistics come by that figure as we all know Microsoft Windows is NOT on or in 200 billion devices world wide.
It's the number of desktops / laptops / workstations running Linux, not total Linux installations. Some Linux advocates ignore the dominance of the OS on single-purpose systems, servers, and other applications outside the desktop market, because those proponents don't use those systems. They act like their pet OS won't have fulfilled its potential until it's the preferred OS for PCs.
Just a note, relevant to the Facebook infrastructure. In fact, many load balancers/ADCs are Linux based.
Many consumers are choosing devices that are based on Linux without even realizing it. Apps and ease of use are the critical factors that will impact Linux growth at the consumer level, and is precisely why desktop Linux has struggled for so long. Easy enough to hand your Mom an Android phone or tablet and they are good to go, not quite so much on a desktop.
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