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Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Linux: 18 million users and growing
If the Linux Counter organization is correct, there are 18 million active Linux users worldwide, making the OS the number two desktop computing platform, behind Windows, and ahead of Mac OS (which has less than 18 million users) and Mac OS X (which has more than 7 million users). "Right now there are 139,971 users registered [with Linux Counter] and 125,648 machines registered at the Linux Counter site, which leads to an overall estimate of about 18 million users - up from about 7.5 million users which was the official estimate in March 1998," according to an article in LinuxWorld. Linux has one other advantage over the Mac OS: Usage and market share is actually growing. Apple has claimed a 25 million user base for years now, but sales of Mac systems have actually slowed, and market share has steadily declined, since Steve Jobs took over. Overall, the Mac market is shrinking at a time when both Windows and Linux are actually growing. Linux on the desktop? I thought it was going to happen years ago, but it looks like Linux is on the way.

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