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Linux scavalcherà Mac?

Quoto da Wired

With the release of its first Linux laptop last week, Hewlett-Packard predicts this year the free operating system will unseat the Mac as the No. 2 desktop operating system behind Windows.

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"We expect to see Linux overtake Mac on the desktop this year," said Jeffrey Wade, HP's Linux marketing communications manager. Wade said HP already sells 100,000 Linux desktops per quarter. (That's between 30,000 and 40,000 Linux computers, not servers, per month.)

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Ho trovato particolarmente significativo questo passaggio:

"In emerging markets like China, Russia and Latin America, many locally assembled PCs are sold without an OS or with Linux," wrote Gartner analyst Annette Jump in a report published last week. "On 90 percent to 95 percent of these PCs, a pirated version of Microsoft Windows is installed within the first few days."

A parte l'ultimo pezzo particolarmente lolloso , questo spiegherebbe perché spesso la gente con i "controcazzi" arriva proprio da paesi come il Brasile, la Russia o la Cina.

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