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AmigaOS and Linux popularity
« on: March 15, 2009, 07:21:54 PM »
Hi everybody.

Just encountered this on the web. Combined with this info and also that, 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.
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Not used: Icaros Desktop 1.2 (reason: no wifi)
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Re: AmigaOS and Linux popularity
« Reply #1 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.
Was: Mac Mini PPC running MorphOS 2.4
Now: Amiga Forever 2010 with AmiKit and AmigaSYS
Not used: Icaros Desktop 1.2 (reason: no wifi)
Planned soon: an OS4 system
Shortly then: a MOS notebook (wifi is a must-have)