In a past thread, the Phoronix member 'dust' provided what I consider a very good indicator of OS usage. The Wikipedia logs:
I don't see reasons to believe that these are flawed in any important way. Wikipedia is almost the perfect site to retrieve this kind of information from. Surely it's western-centric, anglophile and has an educational bias, but I don't see how this would affect the OS trends. For sure, it won't skew the Linux distro usage patterns. Also, since this is just counting browser hits, it will only count desktop machines, and not your hypothetical Unix render farm or backup server.
I don't see reasons to believe that these are flawed in any important way. Wikipedia is almost the perfect site to retrieve this kind of information from. Surely it's western-centric, anglophile and has an educational bias, but I don't see how this would affect the OS trends. For sure, it won't skew the Linux distro usage patterns. Also, since this is just counting browser hits, it will only count desktop machines, and not your hypothetical Unix render farm or backup server.
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OS Requests Percentage Windows 3,933,522 88.18% Mac 301,282 6.75% Linux 69,354 1.55% iPhone 44,451 1.00% BlackBerry 16,132 0.36% SymbianOS 5,829 0.13% DoCoMo 654 0.01% SunOS 486 0.01% FreeBSD 442 0.01% Total 4,460,684 100% Platform Mac and Linux Mac Intel 260,915 5.85% Mac PowerPC 40,050 0.90% Linux Ubuntu 31,479 0.71% Linux Debian 4,560 0.10% Linux Fedora 3,349 0.08% Linux SUSE 2,921 0.07% Linux Android 2,087 0.05% Linux Gentoo 970 0.02% Linux Red Hat 642 0.01% Linux CentOS 498 0.01%
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