On Monday 27 December 2004 01:15 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: > By mainstream I understand high two-digit percentile. OS X is > completely niche with its 2-3% penetration. Debian doesn't exist as > far as market volume is concerned. Maybe in your area, but the local trade rags put Windows only around 60% of local desktops, with Linux making up much of the difference (and Debian the majority of the Linux segment). I can walk across the US-30/I-84 freeway to WalMart and ask the kid in the electronics section to point out Linux-native games and get a real answer, even. Debian has achieved mainstream status in some parts of the world. > It's good that currently people choose a good distribution, but it's > the fringe de la fringe, really. A Linux distribution of the future, > to achieve 20-30% market penetration is going to be much worse, > unfortunately. Actual market forces in play seem to indicate otherwise. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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