Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[tony baldwin]

Odd wrote:
> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 13 May 2009 22:33:13 +0200
>> Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> That's your opinion, not a fact. I consider every Linux distro
>>> "Linux". Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu. They're all Linux.
>>>       
>> That is, of course, true, but only those distros which are for sale may
>> truly claim 'market share'.  They also have each their /own/ market
>> share, not Linux.  Linux has no market share at all, being free.  It
>> has a user base instead.  A user base is virtually impossible to
>> enumerate, particularly if its OS is openly available for sharing.
>>     
>
> True. I've seen user base numbers based on browser ID strings
> from visits to popular web sites.I don't know how reliable these
> numbers are though. Last I saw, Linux user base was 1% of the
> desktop OS market. But my guess is that you can probably
> add a couple of percent points to this.
>
>   
That's definitely not accurate.
Last I saw we were at least 5%, or something, and, to IIRC, we had equal 
or slightly better share than Mac.
And that was a couple of years that I last remember seeing such statistics.
Our numbers are constantly growing.
I think, in these current economic difficulties, even more people will 
look to FOSS solutions, as well.

/tony