Ok, these statements are not my notion to clarify, these notions are there in people believe or not... just shows lack of knowledge that its available.
Organizations are using linux but many more are not... And u cant know anything w/o trying it out, people say its complex coz they havent used it, i'm not saying it is complex (personally i find windows more complex), just there in people's mind...
Some market stats (I'm really discussing these right now and not which is better)
And about firefox: it just hit 25% mkt share (great news!!!) Safari and chrome also posted big gains, IE down to 64% (Still way high!!!)
*Usage share of operating systems*. (Oct 2009) Windows XPhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP(67.55%) Windows Vista http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista (22.23%) Mac OS X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X (4.71%) Linuxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux(0.96%) (I belong here!!) Windows 2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000 (0.60%) Other http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other (1.25%) Servers: Microsoft Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows Linuxhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux BSD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD Solarishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29 Unknown 41.29% 38.48% 4.11% 2.57% 9.67% Supercomputers hav 99% running on Linux/BSD and other such custom made OS. Netbooks hav abt 30% Linux market share.
2009/12/3 Krishnakant hackingkk@gmail.com
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:34 +0530, Sanket Shah wrote:
And, there is the notion, "Free OS?" "Better than Windows?" "Surely they
are
bluffing." "Linux is so complex." blah blah blah... People are so used to the idea of paying for software that they dun fathom the idea of linux.
Very
few actually pay here fr software proven by rampant piracy. They are so
used
to using cracked stuff and trial versions, that free software seems impossible...
If it was a bluff then why are large organisations using linux? I think they don't care to be in the compedition right? And if foss wasn't better then ff and vlc should have not been so popular. The majority people use foss in some direct or indirect way, but many of us don't care to tell them that this is foss and you must take some minits some day to contribute at least a comment or a suggestion to the developers. And I think you neednot be a hacker or an IT guru to send an email about your impressions on the software in question.
What we need is more interest from the direct sellers point, help with install, more directly usable OSes instead of self service type OS.
Agreed
that work is being done here, but a lot remains to be done (Like if
anything
happens, i still hav to go to terminal, which not everybody can use with ease). Ideally we should target such colleges where laptops are
distributed
in bulk and preinstall them with Linux instead of Windows. I know in my college out LUG installed Linux at all the 300 computers in our labs
using a
network install. Professors were impressed by our effort and encouraged it... But putting it in laptops for MBA grads will put us in the
mainstream
and would hav a deeper impact in the professional world. And in a
college,
they always hav a incharge person who handles this laptops, maintenance
etc.
We already have this experiment successfully working in SNDT womens college and the only thing we had to do is after shifting the labs (about 200 + computers ) to Ubuntu, we did an orientation with students and also with the service providers. And they did not find the OS complex. It is just that they were not aware.
Happy hacking. Krishnakant.