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GNU/Linux Users in Techrights

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Summary: We deal with the old question, how many people who read Techrights use GNU/Linux?

APROPOS MARKET SHARE, SEVERAL years ago we used to publish a breakdown of operating systems extracted from readers of Techrights. We are still asked about this sometimes, but it's not possible to carry on doing for two reasons: 1) we use a Varnish cache server to reduce load on the server, so most requests never touch the server (Apache/PHP/CMS) and are instead served quickly through a medium; 2) we don't collect logs (except short-term, for troubleshooting purposes) as they serve nothing but privacy misuses.



“It underplays the prevalence and ubiquity of desktop GNU/Linux worldwide.”When we gauged market share in 2006-2008, around 35-40% of the readers of Techrights* used GNU/Linux (a decent proportion also used BSD). We don't know how it stacks up anymore. It doesn't really matter, either. What we can reluctantly deduce from this is that particular sites that don't reach 'usage surveys' (privacy nightmare) tend to congregate privacy-aware and computer-savvy individuals. It underplays the prevalence and ubiquity of desktop GNU/Linux worldwide.

In other site news, yesterday Techrights climbed to 924th place in Netcraft traffic ranks. We have also transitioned the IRC channels to syndicate through Identi.ca rather than Twitter (due to the OAuth fiasco). ____ * Known just as "Boycott Novell" at the time, before it became one among several parts.

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