hi everybody!
just a stupid questions…
how many people uses linux all over the world?? i’ve searched but i didn’t find any answer.
and how many uses opensuse??
dezzo wrote:
> hi everybody!
>
> just a stupid questions…
>
> how many people uses linux all over the world?? i’ve searched but i
> didn’t find any answer.
> and how many uses opensuse??
>
>
i don’t think anyone knows really…well, i guess the answer depends
on how you define the question, that is what do you mean when you say
“uses linux”?
like, do you want to count all the people who have a
Mororola/HTC/other mobile phone running Linux…or drive a car with
chips running Linux to control the magic, or TVs with linux in their
tuners, refrigerators with linux in their guts…or how about those
who get money out of a cash machine using Linux…or a gasoline pump
using Linux to connect to the bank to verify your credit card?
or would you include all the people who use Google or Facebook (both
of which run on Linux)…
or, if a business has (say) six folks hired to operate its IT system
of 100 file/print/sales data base servers running linux, which support
a work force of 1000 using MS desktop client machines, would you count
that as six people or 1006?
kinda hard to know how to answer your general question…it is easier
to answer specific questions like:
How many of the world’s top 500 supercomputers run Linux?
that answer is always available at:
http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/osfam
today it is at least 472 run Linux (or the Linux-like systems Unix and
BSD)…
and http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/os shows that at least 46 of
those are running some form of SUSE (probably more ‘hidden’ in those
391 running “Linux” at the top of that list…
does that help?
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In addition to DenverD’s reply I say: almost everybody. Last year I did some simple research on devices on our ground floor, that were using linux in one way or another:
- Router
- DVD/HDD recorder
- Microwave oven
- Multimediabox
- TV tuner
The router is a device, you could expect to run linux, but the others ? You would be surprised how many devices run linux as an OS.
There are about 1.5 billion PCs in use. According to the stats at w3schools.com, about 4.5% of web browsers detected by them are on Linux Oses. So a very rough guess would be 65 million desktop PCs. Of course, you can multiply that by more to get the number of Linux “devices”.
It really is impossible to say with any accuracy.
If we go by browser identification, that might be somewhat a close guess, but thats all. Another way is as most distributions do, is to count the number of downloads, but that doesn’t take into account if someone makes copies and hands them out. And then, as Knurpht pointed out, there are other devices that use Linux that don’t access the net at all.
Bottom line is, no one really knows.
thanks for answers.
i mean, how many people uses linux as OS on their pc?
about 1 million, 10 millons or more?
i think i should nice to get an approximate number.
dezzo wrote:
> i mean, how many people uses linux as OS on their pc?
> about 1 million, 10 millons or more?
> i think i should nice to get an approximate number.
whose guess do you want?
swerdna guessed 65 million desktops, but those might be used by
130,000 people…or more…there are lots of families on earth with
three or more people and only one computer so, one three operators how
is that going to be guessed at? hey, some families have NO computer
but use Linux in school or libraries etc…how do we guess?
several years back Linux Counter <http://counter.li.org/> started
trying to get folks to sign up and be counted (i did, see my sig) his
current GUESS is 29 million users on 136022 registered machines…but,
most anyone has to reason that as very low…
ok, there are two guess for you: 29,000,000 to 65,000,000 from two
spots (by the way, the 29M estimate is from 2005!!), but what do
others say:
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6671/1/ says: “we’re
all Linux users … But, we still don’t know exactly how many Linux
desktop users there are… yet. Cole Crawford, a Dell Linux engineer,
is working on the problem. He has created statix to anonymously track
the number of Linux desktops worldwide.”
http://www.linuxloop.com/2008/08/14/linuxs-market-share-is-there-any-way-to-know/
says “The fundamental problem is that it is really, really hard to
know how what the marketshare of Linux, or any open-source software,
is. After all, one download might never be used, or only be used for a
short time, and another might be used to install Linux onto 100
computers.”
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=6507055
says “IDC analyst Dan Kunetsky estimates that Linux accounts for 27%
of the server market, and AllNetResearch says 39%.”
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/coffee-lounge/5184-how-many-linux-users-world.html
says there were 21,000,000 in 2003
http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_many_desktop_linux_users says “If
you believe in Net Applications’ numbers it’s just over 1%. If you
want to buy W3Counter’s numbers, 2.16% of users use Linux. Or, if you
want to go by my own Web site, Practical Technology’s AWStats
statistics, 29.9% of desktop users prefer Linux.”
what i want to know is how many machines exist without the ability to
use Google? and enter a search like:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=How+many+linux+users>
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Good day
When Linux / UNIX systems are counted we cant forget utility management and other infrastructure systems, from water and sewage treatment plants to power generation, distribution grids, building heat vent and load controls, municipal surveillance and traffic control systems, CNC machining, Hollywood, automated radio programming and transmitter control, air traffic control and then we cant forget Bell Labs / Western Electric who were among the “founding fathers” of 'NIX as part of the development of ESS switching frames that replaced the old mechanical “click and bang” rotary step and reset switches. Regardless of opinion everybody depends on the reliability of 'NIX everyday they just don’t know it.
Just think, if Windoze were responsible for all of these services by now the Queen of England would have “Knighted” Bill Gates,“The Knight of Darkness”
Regards, Cfn7
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” (Hunter S. Thompson)
And don’t forget all the non-people who use Linux servers in the hundreds of thousands, like big corporations.
This is an intersting list. I read somewhere that the German Army and the US Post Office
and of course Google for obvious reason use Linux. Among professional scientists
almost all Computer Scientists and most Physicists are Linux persons; but
interestingly not the majority of Mathematicians and Chemists.