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Linux to Over take Apple on Desktop
suselinux:
go here to read the whole article at Business week
note the article is really about MS dropping IE for Mac.
Long maligned as a desktop nonstarter, Linux should pass Apple in market share for desktop operating systems on computers sold in the coming year. That means from 7% to 10% of all PCs shipped won't bear the Windows icon.
Cool eh?
(not because were pushing out Apple but because were pushing Windows off the PC)
Mac OSX is still great
solo:
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Linux should pass Apple in market share for desktop operating systems on computers sold in the coming year. That means from 7% to 10% of all PCs shipped won't bear the Windows icon.
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Where are they getting their numbers?? I don't know any OEMs other than Walmart.com and Tiger Direct that ship PCs with Linux preloaded. Perhaps this is from requests? That would be an awful lot of requests.
This is very shocking. I knew Linux was close to Apple in desktop PCs but *damn*. *if* this is true, another aspect of why MS is scared suddenly popped up in my head.
Faust:
No offense guys but if Apple was GPL I would hate to see this happen. As it is... they do seem to have an easier to use product which I think should give them around 95% of the desktop share in a fair world. The 5% of us that want a system slightly harder to use but with more geeky toggles can stick with Linux. Not BSD. I really dislike the BSD license... Considering that Apple is still proprietary I must instead say : ha ha! may be unfair but we're beating you! [sticks out tongue]
Faust:
Except of course the sample spaces here would have been very small. Coupled with the difficulty of accurately analysing something when you cant see sales figures, I would take this with a pinch of salt.
SAJChurchey:
Of course Apple isn't worried about the loss of IE. They have Safari 1.0 which is a much more superior browser.
I really respect the artistic work that Apple does w/ OS X and their hardware, but I will always be a Linux user at heart.
I agree that Linux is going to be the OS that takes out M$, but hopefully Apple will back up the battles.
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