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It's also misleading because he talks about "large scale enterprise workloads," when he really should mention that their marketshare is almost entirely Linux desktop workstations. Most server workloads are entirely RHEL and CentOS.


Don't forget the increasing Amazon Linux 2011.09 usage as well.


Source data?


http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all

CentOS and RHEL combined total 41.1% of all websites on the Internet. Ubuntu is a distant 3rd or 4th place behind Debian, depending on whether you count RHEL and CentOS as the same OS, or separate.


That's true, but that page says nothing about desktop statistics and how they compare to server statistics.




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