The state of Linux

Distributions, kernel, job market, mobile, drivers for adoption, etc. Pingdom presents: The state of Linux Most popular Linux distributions Mint 1 Debian 6. Last six months. Mageia Arch 2 Ubuntu PCLinuxos Fedora 4 Centos 5 openSUSE Zorin 10 Worldwide desktop web browsing share. 1.17% Where is the most interest in Linux? Top 10 countries ranked by web searches for Linux. Russia Germany Czech Republic Japan China Cuba India Taiwan Madagascar Lesotho 92.4% Of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run Linux. Drivers for adopting Linux Percentage of companies. 69% 70% 64% Lower Total Cost Features/ technical of Ownership (TCO) Security superiority 77.2% Rate Linux's overall security as better than that of other OSs. Linux job market Percentage of companies. 85% 81% 63% Finding Linux talent is Hiring Linux talent is a priority. difficult. Are increasing Linux hires. Linux on mobile Android, 03 2012 75% 136 91.5% Of all smartphones shipped. Year-over-year Million units. growth. The Linux Kernel For kernel version 3.2. 6.88 changes per hour files 37,626 15,004,006 1,316 lines developers days in development changes (patches) 72 11,881 New major release every 2-3 months Top 10 contributors Percent of changes to the Linux kernel. Nokia 1.2% Academia 1.3% Oracle 2.1 Consultant 3.0% Unknown 5.1% IBM 6.1% Intel 6.2% Novell 6.4% Red Hat 11.9% None (Individual) 17.9% 4 8. 10 12 14 16 18 % Sources www.google.com/trends royal.pingdom.com w3techs.com distrowatch.com top500.org www.netmarketshare.com www.linuxfoundation.org www.engadget.com Brought to you by pingdom Distributions, kernel, job market, mobile, drivers for adoption, etc. Pingdom presents: The state of Linux Most popular Linux distributions Mint 1 Debian 6. Last six months. Mageia Arch 2 Ubuntu PCLinuxos Fedora 4 Centos 5 openSUSE Zorin 10 Worldwide desktop web browsing share. 1.17% Where is the most interest in Linux? Top 10 countries ranked by web searches for Linux. Russia Germany Czech Republic Japan China Cuba India Taiwan Madagascar Lesotho 92.4% Of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run Linux. Drivers for adopting Linux Percentage of companies. 69% 70% 64% Lower Total Cost Features/ technical of Ownership (TCO) Security superiority 77.2% Rate Linux's overall security as better than that of other OSs. Linux job market Percentage of companies. 85% 81% 63% Finding Linux talent is Hiring Linux talent is a priority. difficult. Are increasing Linux hires. Linux on mobile Android, 03 2012 75% 136 91.5% Of all smartphones shipped. Year-over-year Million units. growth. The Linux Kernel For kernel version 3.2. 6.88 changes per hour files 37,626 15,004,006 1,316 lines developers days in development changes (patches) 72 11,881 New major release every 2-3 months Top 10 contributors Percent of changes to the Linux kernel. Nokia 1.2% Academia 1.3% Oracle 2.1 Consultant 3.0% Unknown 5.1% IBM 6.1% Intel 6.2% Novell 6.4% Red Hat 11.9% None (Individual) 17.9% 4 8. 10 12 14 16 18 % Sources www.google.com/trends royal.pingdom.com w3techs.com distrowatch.com top500.org www.netmarketshare.com www.linuxfoundation.org www.engadget.com Brought to you by pingdom