Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
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Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
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Re: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
#2tl;dr: A lot of people have Android devices.
Re: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
#3In the graph, there is a sudden change in 2005, where (I guess) mobile devices were added. What I don't get is how Apple jumps to 21%, given that the iPhone was not introduced before 2007.
Edit: from the linked Seattle Times article:
I asked Goldman Sachs about what happened in the 2004-2005 time frame -- as seen in the above chart -- that made Apple's vendor share jump, Microsoft's share plummet and the "other" category to go from zero to 29 percent. Goldman Sachs replied that it has to do with more mainstream adoption of non-PC consumer computing devices but declined to elaborate beyond that.
Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/microsoftpri0/2019853243_goldma...
Re: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
#4I thought OS X and iOS were derived from BSD. Is the graph supposed to be generic Unix/Unix like OSs or should Apple not be included in this? Or am I just wrong?
Re: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
#5Although it's technically running the Linux kernel, I personally would not consider it a free (libre) operating system as sold on most of those devices. I'm sure Linus is proud, but this seems like more of a win for Google than for the Linux community or free software in general.
Re: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
#6The most striking statistic to me was Microsoft's drop from 97% to 20% over the past 12 years.
Re: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
#7I thought OS X and iOS were derived from BSD. Is the graph supposed to be generic Unix/Unix like OSs or should Apple not be included in this? Or am I just wrong?
Well , this is talking specifically about Linux so BSD would not count. AFAIK even though BSD looks sort of similar to Linux there is no actual shared code in the kernel and indeed many core libraries are different.
Re: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
#8I thought OS X and iOS were derived from BSD. Is the graph supposed to be generic Unix/Unix like OSs or should Apple not be included in this? Or am I just wrong?
The 42% is Android. If they wanted to make a stronger point they could sum up Apple and Android and claim 66% of mobile is on unix-like OS's.
Re: Linux now on 42% of consumer computing devices
#9Although it's technically running the Linux kernel, I personally would not consider it a free (libre) operating system as sold on most of those devices. I'm sure Linus is proud, but this seems like more of a win for Google than for the Linux community or free software in general.
It's not "technically" running the Linux kernel, it IS running the linux kernel.
It's also using most of the standard GNU tools - bash, etc. You can open a shell on a rooted android device and use it much like any other distribution.
This is a huge win for Linux.
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#10A lot of people have Android devices. And TV decoders running Linux. And routers running Linux. And the trend ain't stopping anytime soon: it's hard to compete with free and open.
That's when you do really want to go back to the late nineties, on Usenet, where all the MS fanbois kept singing: "Nothing to see, move along, Unix is dying and Windows is going to conquer everything, including the server space".
How farsighted these where uh!?
And that's in not even 20 years. I can't imagine how the landscape shall look like in another twenty.