TuxRadar by the numbers | Linux Today

TuxRadar by the numbers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 23, 2009

“Windows XP made up 232,145 visits so far, which, by itself, is
more than all Linux versions combined, which add up to 217,266
visits. D’oh.

“While we’d love to break down which Linux distros people are
using, it’s just not possible – most Linux distros don’t give away
that much information. However, Ubuntu does identify itself, and a
couple of grep and wc commands later we can tell you that Ubuntu
users make up at least 54% of all Linux visitors to our site. Note
that we’ve said “at least”, because we can only count Ubuntu users
that positively identify themselves as using Ubuntu – any Ubuntu
user who installed a custom Firefox, uses a different,
non-identifying browser, or just removes that kind of information
from their user agent isn’t counted.

“On the browser front, Firefox leads the way. Here’s the
breakdown:”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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