marketshare.hitslink.com— This operating system market share trend study by Net Applications report an astonishing increase number of Internet access from Linux clients, about 100% in just 2 months!!!
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Am wondering how many of those Linux users are from YDL. Am tired of playing resistance fall of man and Motorstorm in my PS3. I browse the web via my PS3 with a high frequency. Anybody knows how to install an MP3 player for YDL on PS3?.
Actually I would think less web developers use Linux, think about it many tools are not even ported to Linux: for example Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks and many others, I think web developers are pretty much stuck with Windows and Macs (unless they use only HTML)
> .. most of the studies put it around 3-5%Link ? Basically every site/report which has marketshare barely has Macs that high and Linux is usually less than or around 1%
Who programs directly into HTML anymore? Sure you'll do HTML to setup templates and such, but nobody doing web development is going to spend there time coding up static web pages all day.Majority of web developers are probably using PHP. PHP has much better support in your average Linux distribution then it does on Windows. Ditto for Java, which is another major language. And again for Python.. and Perl.. and Ruby,... And there are a crapload of very high quality development tools for developing websites.Stuff like Vim, or BlueFish, or NVU<a class="user" href="http://www.nvu.com/index.php">http://www.nvu.com/index.php</a><a class="user" href="http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html">http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html</a><a class="user" href="http://www.vim.org/">http://www.vim.org/</a>Whatever you want. Stuff from simple text editors, to complex modern text editors, to full fledged IDEs. Just bork around Freshmeat.net for a while and you'll probably find something you'd like.This just isn't the typical things you'd see when you go to college for web development. Then again they generally do a pretty poor job reflecting what people do in real life.In fact most people that I see talking about this sort of stuff say that Linux is a superior environment for development of most sorts. The only real reason to use Windows is if your going to be developing Microsoft-specific stuff.The major barrier is more of one of basic desktop usability. Lots of web developers are not actually very techincal people and Linux is probably scary or unfamilar. They'll create excuses, like lack of photoshop, rather then want to go into details. Hopefully projects like Ubuntu are beginning to turn it around.
Well, I don't quite get the statistics / graph. But that doesn't matter to me. During the month of February and March, I replaced 5 computers using Windows 98 with 6 computers using Ubuntu for our public library. Starting with staff computers and then public access computers.In October 2005 we had 100 people using 3 public access computers. In October 2006 we had 263, still using 3 windows 98 machines. Then in April 2007 I had 3 computers for the public with Ubuntu. That month we had 306 public access users. I know that isn't much but in a rural town of 4000 it is a lot. I am able to get twice as many computers for the same price just by using Ubuntu instead of windows. Over the next few months I will be adding 3 more Ubuntu computers for public access.I am glad to contribute to the increased usage of Linux, however humble it may be.
@justathought I was interested to see PCLinuxOS in first place as well. But it's lead if over Ubuntu is shrinking. They had been 350 over Ubuntu but now they're down to 41 above, I would try it, but I still hav bad memories of rpm based distros (Mandrake and SUSE)
IT IS UBUNTU... no doubt nor question in my mind that Ubuntu has done amaizing things for getting people to forget Windows and MAC. Now with their latest release it rivals Vista in eye candy.
Closed AccountMay 4, 2007
Am wondering how many of those Linux users are from YDL. Am tired of playing resistance fall of man and Motorstorm in my PS3. I browse the web via my PS3 with a high frequency. Anybody knows how to install an MP3 player for YDL on PS3?.
tiakMay 4, 2007
@coollettuceThis from someone using the VLC cone, the one true symbol of divinity as an avatar?! Why have you forsaken us?
Closed AccountMay 5, 2007
Actually I would think less web developers use Linux, think about it many tools are not even ported to Linux: for example Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks and many others, I think web developers are pretty much stuck with Windows and Macs (unless they use only HTML)
estvirMay 5, 2007
> .. most of the studies put it around 3-5%Link ? Basically every site/report which has marketshare barely has Macs that high and Linux is usually less than or around 1%
dragMay 5, 2007
Who programs directly into HTML anymore? Sure you'll do HTML to setup templates and such, but nobody doing web development is going to spend there time coding up static web pages all day.Majority of web developers are probably using PHP. PHP has much better support in your average Linux distribution then it does on Windows. Ditto for Java, which is another major language. And again for Python.. and Perl.. and Ruby,... And there are a crapload of very high quality development tools for developing websites.Stuff like Vim, or BlueFish, or NVU<a class="user" href="http://www.nvu.com/index.php">http://www.nvu.com/index.php</a><a class="user" href="http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html">http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html</a><a class="user" href="http://www.vim.org/">http://www.vim.org/</a>Whatever you want. Stuff from simple text editors, to complex modern text editors, to full fledged IDEs. Just bork around Freshmeat.net for a while and you'll probably find something you'd like.This just isn't the typical things you'd see when you go to college for web development. Then again they generally do a pretty poor job reflecting what people do in real life.In fact most people that I see talking about this sort of stuff say that Linux is a superior environment for development of most sorts. The only real reason to use Windows is if your going to be developing Microsoft-specific stuff.The major barrier is more of one of basic desktop usability. Lots of web developers are not actually very techincal people and Linux is probably scary or unfamilar. They'll create excuses, like lack of photoshop, rather then want to go into details. Hopefully projects like Ubuntu are beginning to turn it around.
2012May 6, 2007
Well, I don't quite get the statistics / graph. But that doesn't matter to me. During the month of February and March, I replaced 5 computers using Windows 98 with 6 computers using Ubuntu for our public library. Starting with staff computers and then public access computers.In October 2005 we had 100 people using 3 public access computers. In October 2006 we had 263, still using 3 windows 98 machines. Then in April 2007 I had 3 computers for the public with Ubuntu. That month we had 306 public access users. I know that isn't much but in a rural town of 4000 it is a lot. I am able to get twice as many computers for the same price just by using Ubuntu instead of windows. Over the next few months I will be adding 3 more Ubuntu computers for public access.I am glad to contribute to the increased usage of Linux, however humble it may be.
sanguinemoonMay 6, 2007
@justathought I was interested to see PCLinuxOS in first place as well. But it's lead if over Ubuntu is shrinking. They had been 350 over Ubuntu but now they're down to 41 above, I would try it, but I still hav bad memories of rpm based distros (Mandrake and SUSE)
addicted68098May 6, 2007
I wish google would release this information
rohenNov 6, 2007
IT IS UBUNTU... no doubt nor question in my mind that Ubuntu has done amaizing things for getting people to forget Windows and MAC. Now with their latest release it rivals Vista in eye candy.