<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Richard, while your analysis and experiences might be interesting for some, please discuss it further in the users mailing list, where discussion on non-development issues are welcome. Michael, please reconsider your attitude. If you can't bring anything to the discussion except snarky and/or unconstructive comments, please do not post to this list. Cheers, Pasi On 15/02/14 18:34, Michael Fischer wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:52FF971F.6010601@yahoo.de" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I had no success to find any hard market numbers on the XP->Xubuntu migration on non-PAE platforms so far. It seems clear, however, that the Xubuntu image resulting from the 12.04.4 cheat is most likely: A Very Good Computing Enviroment for Written-off Hardware. There is a market for that. An interesting one? I doubt. FMF On 15.02.2014 17:05, Richard Elkins wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:52FF904B.8020500@gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> USA Notes ..... People who survey and keep track of statistics are reporting that home XP users have been and still are taking the easy technological route of upgrading to 7, either legally or illegally. I doubt if many home Windows users are thinking about GNU/Linux at all. Resistance to change and expense is at play. Hardly anyone realizes that their Android phones are running a Linux kernel. This is similar to the fact that MacOS and iOS users do not realize that their machines are running an offshoot of BSD Unix. People just look at the eye candy and believe that this is the "system". Commercial use is a different story. Many businesses are buying new or converting to Linux. Faster, more secure, and not more expensive than Windows. IBM and Redhat have benefited hugely from this continuing trend. The commercial desktops, however, are upgraded from XP to 7 "enterprise edition". Corporate America is locked into Microsoft Office and Exchange for the foreseeable future. Ask anyone on the street in America "what is Linux" and you'll usually get a blank look. I often have trouble in social situations explaining what I do. For Linux and BSD Unix users and fans, there is still a tall mountain to climb, especially in communications. Richard the pessimist (sometimes) </blockquote> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://open.knome.fi/">http://open.knome.fi/</a> Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shimmerproject.org/">http://shimmerproject.org/</a> Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xubuntu.org/">http://xubuntu.org/</a></pre> </body> </html>