Lies, Damned Lies and Linux at 0.36%

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

What about the very large GNOME deployment in Spain, China, Brazil, UK, etc.

On 8/14/06, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (as per http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leonard_H._Courtney)
>
> OneStat is reporting on
>
> http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox46-operating-systems-market-share.html
> that:
>
> "The global usage share [...] of Linux is 0.36 percent."
>
> Could this really be?  Their methodology:
>
> "A global usage share of xx percent for OS Y means that xx percent of
> the visitors of Internet users arrived at sites that are using one of
> OneStat.com's services by using the particular number of OS Y. All
> numbers mentioned in the research are averages and all measurements
> are normalised to the GMT timezone. Research is based on a sample of 2
> million visitors divided into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each
> day."
>
> So does this mean (for example) that Hungary (~10M) would count as
> much as the US (~300M)?
>
> Also, what sort of sites use "OneStat.com's services"?  e.g. what is
> the language distribution of these sites?
>
> However, what troubles me the most is that even if they are
> underestimating the percentage of Linux users by a factor of ten it
> would mean that there are less that 5% of people using Linux.  How are
> we ever going to fix Bug #1
> (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1) at this rate? :)
>
> CK
>
> --
> sounder mailing list
> sounder at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder
>



-- 
gawk; grep; unzip; touch; strip; init, uncompress, gasp; finger; find,
route, whereis, which, mount; fsck; nice, more; yes; gasp; warnquota,
umount; head, halt, renice, restore, touch, whereis, which, route, mount,
more, yes, gasp, umount, expand, ping, bashbug, dump, make clean; sleep
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/attachments/20060816/f2f170d3/attachment.htm