Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

Urmas

Steam is a game platform, and here's some facts from their own info web 
page - quote "As of December 2012, there are nearly 2000 games available 
through Steam,^and 54 million active user accounts. As of January 2013, 
Steam has seen over 6.6 million concurrent players. Steam has an 
estimated 50--70% share of the digital distribution market for video 
games.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_%28software%29#cite_note-Graft-8> 
^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_%28software%29#cite_note-9> As of 
January 2013 they have 6.6 million active gamers." unquote

Note the video games part. So your stats of 14% are the measure of 
either the 54 million active accounts, or the 6.6 million active users, 
which is it. Now compare that to 1.1 billion computers around the world, 
a big difference to your percentage running Windows 8 and trying to 
compare with Linux. Linux desktop is estimated to be around 2% of the 
worlds computers, again comparable, not left behind by your stats of 
Windows 8. On the internet alone there are 10 million core major 
computer systems running Linux, and about 120 million sub servers also 
running Linux, so your 14% of 54 million compares poorly to your 
supplied stats.

And I'll quote you again with fact about Linux servers, especially the 
last paragraph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


     Servers, mainframes and supercomputers

Servers designed for Linux

Linux distributions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution> 
have long been used as server 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29> operating 
systems, and have risen to prominence in that area; Netcraft 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcraft> reported in September 2006 that 
eight of the ten most reliable internet hosting companies ran Linux 
distributions on their web servers 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server>. Since June 2008, Linux 
distributions represented five of the top ten, FreeBSD 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD> three of ten, and Microsoft 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft> two of ten; since February 
2010, Linux distributions represented six of the top ten, FreeBSD two of 
ten, and Microsoft one of 
ten.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#cite_note-80>

Linux distributions are the cornerstone of the LAMP 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29> 
server-software combination (Linux, Apache 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server>, MySQL 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL>, Perl 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl>/PHP 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP>/Python 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29>) which 
has achieved popularity among developers, and which is one of the more 
common platforms for website 
hosting.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#cite_note-SecuritySpace-81>

Linux distributions have become increasingly popular on mainframes in 
the last decade partly due to pricing and the open-source model. In 
December 2009, computer giant IBM <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM> 
reported that it would predominantly market and sell mainframe-based 
Enterprise Linux 
Server.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#cite_note-The_Register-82>

Linux distributions are also commonly used as operating systems 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system> for supercomputers 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer>: since November 2010, out 
of the top 500 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500> systems, 459 
(91.8%) run a Linux distribution. Linux was also selected as the 
operating system for the world's most powerful supercomputer, IBM's 
Sequoia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Sequoia> which became 
operational in 2011.^

Unquote

Andrew Brown


On 01/08/2013 12:22 PM, Urmas wrote:
> According to http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey, Windows 8 is 
> working on 14% of computers.
> It's more than 10 times Linux marketshare.


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