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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: DiskDoctor on March 15, 2009, 07:21:54 PM

Title: AmigaOS and Linux popularity
Post by: DiskDoctor on March 15, 2009, 07:21:54 PM: Hi everybody.

Just encountered this (http://www.DesktopLinux.com/cgi-bin/survey/survey.cgi?view=archive&id=0813200712407) on the web. Combined with this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems) info and also that (http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=644708&), it makes the proud Linuxians manpower roughly a 1 000 000 or some more.

But that's not my point. I know such deduction is more than amateur while all quoted measures are biased and vary. Alas orders of magnitude are still. And it implies that e.g. Dream Linux distribution (being a distinct system) is used by approx. 1000 people.

So my point - since AmigaOS is a niche system (how many anyway??), except for a few main Linux streams, the rest particular ones turns out to be as much popular.

EDIT* My mistake of course - Linux userbase is 1% which makes e.g. Dream Linux 10 000. But still, figures are close.
Title: Re: AmigaOS and Linux popularity
Post by: murple on March 16, 2009, 04:38:36 PM: I think maybe some of your point was lost in translation to English. can you clarify these sentences?

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Alas orders of magnitude are still.

So my point - since AmigaOS is a niche system (how many anyway??), except for a few main Linux streams, the rest particular ones turns out to be as much popular.
Title: Re: AmigaOS and Linux popularity
Post by: Piru on March 16, 2009, 04:57:25 PM: @DiskDoctor
I get the impression that you're trying to suggest that amiga would be as popular as linux. If so, you're gravely mistaken.

Secondly, IMO it is not fair to count each different linux distribution as separate. Or if you do, you should compare WB 1.3.3 users against specific linux distro or something. :-)

Also, see http://counter.li.org/estimates.php
Title: Re: AmigaOS and Linux popularity
Post by: Tempest on March 16, 2009, 05:27:55 PM: @DiskDoctor

Red Hat Fedora alone has 12 million active users across Fedora 7, 8, 9 and 10 releases. Red Hat counts unique IPs connecting to their repositories, more info here (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics). Ubuntu claims a similar amount of users, more info here (http://www.redherring.com/Home/20497). And there are other big/popular distro's like Debian, Mandriva and Suse which have millions of users.

Linux is Linux, you don't compare AmigaOS's popularity to one distro, everybody and his/her dog can make a distro. There are probably more Linux distro's than active Amiga users ;-)
Title: Re: AmigaOS and Linux popularity
Post by: Tempest on March 16, 2009, 05:43:48 PM: Quote

There are probably more Linux distro's than active Amiga users ;-)

I'm joking here but on DistroWatch (http://distrowatch.com/) they list more than 1000 distro's :-o
Title: Re: AmigaOS and Linux popularity
Post by: DiskDoctor on March 16, 2009, 06:08:14 PM: Well I just wanted to get close to Amiga figures somehow.
But due to my mistake this whole thing became silly.
Title: Re: AmigaOS and Linux popularity
Post by: persia on March 16, 2009, 10:17:37 PM: AmigaOS is the only one of the four (OS X, MS Windows, Linux, Amiga) where all the users know each other!