[Tfug] Well, now i've seen it all.

[keith smith]

Less searches for the term "Linux" probably means people have found they are not finding what they are looking for by using a single word such as Linux which is extremely broad.

I wouldn't give this much weight in of itself.

I think Linux is doing just fine.  What is your alternative?  At least for servers : Windows? MAC?  

There is a hugh number of data centers throughout the US and the world that run Linux on inexpensive hardware.

Linux might not win the desktop war, however it is doing just fine in the server war.  

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Keith Smith

--- On Tue, 5/31/11, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Well, now i've seen it all.
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 2:09 PM

Actually, looking at Google Trends, it sort of *is* the end of the world. Linux has been in a state of popular decline for years. Things like this certainly don't help.

http://google.com/trends?q=Linux

..Just sayin'. :)



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On May 31, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Dave Thompson <dthomp325 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu has been using upstart since version 6.10 (2006), and the world
> hasn't ended. Here's an article describing why:
> http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/57213. I'm guessing that the root of
> Bowie's discontent matches this line from the article: "modern desktop
> computers and servers are very different beasts from those in use ten
> [15] years ago".
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Amusingly, IIRC, this is how NeXT was.....Pure BSD, one big ass startup script. :)
>> 
>>> I'm surprised you're not pining for BSD style initscripts or DJB's
>>> daemontools...
>>> 
>>> - Zack
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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