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Weblog of an ISP

Published by Robert Pogson January 20th, 2010 in technology. 2 Comments

One of the annoying things about web stats is that the published ones from NetApps and others do not show the sites visited very well. There is always the possibility of bias. I have been looking for something more open and stumbled upon the weblog og an ISP. They should have a reasonably unbiased sample. I was playing with the “visitors” package from Debian and thought to look it up on the web.

I found this site reports 4.4% GNU/Linux visitors from their webloag. The site is a dial-up ISP and co-location service so they may have more visitors who are techie but at least we know that up front. It shows MacOS at 4.7%. Now to find reports far and wide, wherever Debian goes…

http://stats.kore-nordmann.de/ a web/php dev site reports 14.82% in Germany
http://www.cnpaf.embrapa.br/ government agriculture 1.1%

That’s not much but at least it is a different story. GNU/Linux is widely used and by more than 1% globally.

- Robert Pogson

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1 Richard Chapman Jan 20th, 2010 at 10:47 am

I posted this link a few times on sites we both visit. I don’t know if you saw it but here it is again: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=5334

That post is from Feb. 13, 2004. Some would argue that Linux desktop share has gone down siting more recent “surveys” to support their view. Perhaps if GNU/Linux was something that could be adopted lightly like the latest fashion. People use an operating system like they wear their skin. It’s perceived as something you are born into. If we don’t molt now and then we become encased in old ways of thinking.

That post from 2004 was close to the mark, I believe, and my observations tell me GNU/Linux adoption has been on the increase ever since.
2 Robert Pogson Jan 20th, 2010 at 4:04 pm

Yes. There has been no “Vista” in GNU/Linux. There are constant restoring forces to repair problems as they arise. In my years of using GNU/Linux there have only been a few incidents like the weak keys in Debian or the problems with device names shifting (UUID to the rescue) that gave me more than a few seconds of woe. Here we have XP with a gaping vulnerability that has been present for 17 years and M$ will only fix it when it is widely publicized. I hate that other OS. Many others do.

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