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- Snakey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Googles main page has been visited by almost every linux user. The browser sends its browsers agent name and its os along with it through http... Google could make a report of this and we would have a REAL indicator about how many people use linux, and use which browser (this would be on a much larger scale than services like onestat...)
- Garfunkel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+729million seems a little slim.
- aroedl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Boy, my Linux Counter ID is around 17.000. It makes sense to post the Linux counter every year.
- kratos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7i'm not signing up for that but count me in
- dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12People like google, opera skype, and adobe must know how many desktop linux there are out there. Downloads of picasa and google earth and the latest of skype's beta should give them a good indication. The counter for all its good intentions doesn't seem get anywhere near the truth
- fireball74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been listed for years now.... Make sure you update your listing! lol!
- aroedl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Check the recent users statistics! A new user every 20 seconds!
http://counter.li.org/reports/recentusers.php - Adoozie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If you went by their counter, it looks like it's actually starting to level off. This would mean that either A) all the hype around Ubuntu in particular is not having much of an affect at all, or B) their counter is hardly representative, which seems more likely.
- MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I completely forgot about this site. Had to update my 3 year old info. I think every box I had on there has changed.
- aroedl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Are you sure? According to the stats, more than 60 per cent of the registered machines are used as workstation computers... http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.php
- KAMI_no_kodomo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I dun't use propretary code. (unless I find nu other alternative)
I use 100% Linux sinds almoost a jear. I don't use skype, piccaso, opera, ...
Onlly in the last some days I installed Google Earth becose I realy neded it.
Then also. Many distributions will put opera, skype, ... in the distro. So no download from the official site.
Also since those programs are gratis you can pass them on to others. So 1 download dusn't meen 1 installation. And in the other direction 1 person may use windows and yust evry week tray a linux distro and download evry time skype on it...
So downloads are NO indication.
Tracky coeckyes on a site like google can make a indication. But then still, I use more than 1 brouwser and my mother who also only uses Linux yust never surf the web. And a frend of me hase a Linux computer for his kids for gaming witch has no internet connecion at al.
Counting Linux is quite impossible. And I think this site is a realy good try. - ramfree17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Snakey
like what has been said before, the user agent is not that credible when used as basis since it is very easy to fake the user agent. i think the sites that cater solely to IE is dwindling but those sites still exists and sadly those are the sites that are resistant to building a more standards-friendly site even if you flood them with customer email.
with that said, linux counter and user agent based statistics have their own uses. it depends on the person interpreting them.
ciao! - aroedl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Dont forget to register your machine, if you want:
http://counter.li.org/machine-form.php - BrokenDrum, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Arrogance like that is what's stopping Linux from going mainstream.
- championchap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2420470 - Ive not been a Linux user for very long though, and at the moment i don't use it exclusively. The program i use more than any other is Macromedia Flash, so making a permanent switch just doesn't make sense at the moment. From what Ive seen though, its a damn fine OS. Just a shame Macromedia/Adobe don't support it.
Till then, OSX is starting to look all the more tempting with every passing day. - ebonphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Snakey
Such estimates would only give you an idea of how many IP addresses that weren't behind a firewall requested said programs.
Both myself and my partner run a linux box each from the same net connection - yet our firewall would tell you that 4 copies of said programs were downloaded. Google's opinion of our numbers in such an instance would either be 1 (for the IP) or 4 (for the requests). - jscobee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why register with the site? I'm tired of having to register on so many sites period. I will not register just to prove I use Linux I'm sold on Linux and use it at home now. I still use Windows for work and music production though.
- bart9h, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3better yet:
http://counter.li.org/reports/hourstats.php - aroedl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The counter is _very_ old! The website is owned by Jon "maddog" Hall. You don't have to give personal information at all, just leave some fields blank.
- K4P741NxKRUNCH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, I was surprised to see the amount was over 400000 so quickly
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'd say that everyone who REALLY wants to use Linux is already doing so. Everybody else is content with what they already have. There'll be some more limited growth ahead, but we've already started our approach to the limit to Linux's adoption.
- jacks0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not necessarily. I've noticed that geek friends all use google, whereas non-geeks tend to use other searchs such as ask.com and yahoo.com. Your statement would be 100% correct if the distribution of users between all OS's were the same, as in the %age of usage between each search is the same.
@Smoov, "The OSS model does not permit the development of a truly elegant and unified GUI like OS/X."
What do you suppose XGL is ... hmm? - dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's the one and only.
- astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd say there's a high probability that it's both.
- Anduu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you are a proud linux user why not register?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Very 1998 of you to post this!
- Anchoret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2> If you are a proud linux user why not register?
If your choice of operating system is a point of pride for you, you seriously need to get out more.
Really. - sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -5/+410 more years and we might have 10% of the World Linux Population
- Anchoret, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Nonsensical waste of time and space for all the reasons mentioned.
Just a do-nothing site to make the lower orders of newbie fanboys think they're doing something.
I've used limping Linux for seven years. I don't care, why should you? - sillygates, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I bet some people are counting knoppix
- arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3The phrase 'futile pointless exercise' comes to mind.
- Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I just added myself even though I run Linux, yay fo false inflation!
- chickenrob, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2uhh... I have been using linux for several years but I am not about to give up a bunch of personal information to some website that is just asking for it. I can't beleive Linux users are signing up for this. Pay attention to what you are doing! Maybe microsoft hosts this site.
- stalinvlad, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Why not put a bit of spyware in all new linux distros which phones home?
- tllstred, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1OLD, bury PLX.
- walterk29, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2What a find! Can't see how the open-source community has lived without this for the past 10 or so years!
- agilligan, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3More like 1993.
- astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Totally, man. ✔
So kick back, light up a joint, throw on that old Radiohead album, and take a ride on the memory train...
http://slashdot.org/linux/99/02/23/1049219.shtml - Fly1m1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Not enough to piss on
- tehpoutine, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Get Counted! Report this story as lame. Almost guaranteed to be more accurate than this BS.
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Just so I'm clear on what you're saying, explain how Google know?
- xiloki, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3This was lame 10 years ago.
- ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5The linux counter!??
welcome to the web.
;) - Smoov, on 10/12/2007, -8/+10.38% of computer users use Linux on the desktop.
Linux is a server OS. The desktop never caught on except among geeks. The OSS model does not permit the development of a truly elegant and unified GUI like OS/X. - Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2heh, I wonder if Microsoft set this up....
- walterk29, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3Buried the two above. We can click the links ourselves, thanlks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -24/+3If you don't know about this you shouldn't be a Linux User...
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