1% Linux, 99% to go

May 04, 2009, 13:04 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

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"Net Applications, a Web site analytics company, just published their April 2009 Web users survey, Market Share, and they found that "Linux usage share on client devices has surpassed 1% for the first time in our tracking. Linux has been successful primarily as a server operating system, but client usage share has not kept pace with server share Linux has reached this important milestone on the client as Linux-based systems have become more functional, easier to use, and pre-installed on computers from vendors like Dell.

"It's about time!"

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