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Yes boys and girls, it's Net Applications time. Sure, their figures are flawed, and sure, they're misused all over the non-scientifically educated media, but that doesn't mean they do not indicate trends. One of those trends was a slowly rising popularity of Linux, which hit 0.93% market share in August 2008, only to sink back again during the following months. Well, it's April May 2009 now, and Linux has finally crossed the 1% market share line!

 

more via > http://www.osnews.com/story/21421/Linux_Hi...Share_Milestone

The Netbook effect maybe?

could be, sad thing is that a lot of netbooks now run XP, and linux is not getting much of an install base any more on netbooks, or is it ?

Quote:could be, sad thing is that a lot of netbooks now run XP, and linux is not getting much of an install base any more on netbooks, or is it ?

 

Possibly. Netbooks aren't really my thing personally, so I don't have any experience with them, but it does seem that a lot that I see are running XP now. Still, Linux did get a little bit of mainstream distribution for some time