You can’t seriously believe these numbers.
1) Linux is the single largest installed base of servers.
2) The statistics on w3c indicate around a 2% web user base, but is there anyway to know these numbers are even close?
3) What about all those PCs which run Linux but don’t have internet, or Linux machines hidden behind firewalls, filtering systems and gateways?
4) Linux doesn’t have a billion dollar advertising campaign, an installed base in the hundreds of millions from previous versions, global name recognition or retail outlets. However even if your linked stats are right Linux desktops have around 7.2 million installed PCs and are growing at a rate of about 300,000 a month. That’s an impressive number all by itself. (assuming a Windows base of 300 million PCs)
5) Many surveys done on the internet and by magazines are paid for by Microsoft or Microsoft supporters, and thus any statistic must be analyzed for accuracy and prejudice.
6) Caveat emptor, be cautious believing anything you see hear or read.

According to this http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Linux-Losing-Market-Share-to-Windows-Server/ Linux isn’t doing well in the server arena.

I would like to see Linux take off but it’s not happening. I think devices like the BlackBerry are having a huge impact. For a company to get push email to the BlackBerry you need an Exchange server. That cuts Linux out of the picture in a lot of places.

If Linux is going to take off it needs to work well in business and gaming. We can play a few games but we can’t get push email to the BlackBerry. Not yet anyway.

Unless Linux can break into these markets or find a new niche market it will be stuck on the sidelines. That’s my opinion any way.

it would be awesome if the splashtop guys made splashOS (the full version)

or suggest a good userfriendly distro like ubuntu.

i think I’ll be suggesting this to them

I think the gOS machines did this, but it would need to be a close match. I see Asus are looking at all-in-one monitors with an inbuilt PC and OS, which might be the lever Linux was looking for.

But how do you calculate Brazil’s tech push?
30,000 computer labs built by the end of the year, for a total of 50,000 by the end of 2009 to serve 50 million students with Linux and KDE.
Those kids wont have their own computers but how can you brush off their usage of Linux?

Last year we were so happy taht Dell was taking comments.
Today, we have cheap laptops coming out every day.

But the one thing you missed (as did all of mainstream media) is the Asus embedded Linux deal.

EVERY Asus motheboard and some laptop series will have Splashtop technology which is means that millions of mobos every month will come with embedded Linux.

How is THIS not big news?
Even if you are not a FLOSS fan, slow boot up times have been with us since the PC revolution started.

I know quite a few people who could live their whole lives with just Firefox, Skype, IM an photoviewer and never boot into their main OS.

As a person who has built every one of his desktops, I think the instant on technology is a useful one.
As a Gnu-Linuxista, the idea of millions of motherboards coming out every month is simply astounding.

I ask once again: How is this not a bigger story?