[ILUG] How much is Linux used?

[kevin lyda]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:23:13AM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/zeitgeist-jun04.html

here are the problems with that statistic:

    it's from june of 2004.  that's over a year old - and several
    amazing desktop linux distros have matured since then.

    web browsers lie.  many people tweak their browser to lie about
    what they are running on.

    web proxies lie.  i've configured squid in the past to rewrite
    browser ident strings.

    demographics.  notice the popular queries.  desktop linux users
    tend to be early adopters.  do the queries look like techie
    queries?  no.

    browser technology.  i dunno what windows browsers are like, but
    most linux browsers i've used have a google box so most of my
    queries only hit google once.

    demographics part 2 - i don't know a single linux user who sets
    google as their home page.  i know a few windows users who do.  not
    to mention a slew of windows using cyber-cafes.

    what's the data/methodology  behind the stats?  is it done on a
    per-ip basis?  per-hit?  per-cookie?

just a thought.

kevin

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