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Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
(www.theregister.com)
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I wonder what has the other half of the Linux market. Linux, perhaps?
ChromeOS.
I'm not sure what's being implied here, but the quote from the article is true. ChromeOS is FOSS, was based on Ubuntu (a long time ago) and is now based on Gentoo. Early versions of ChromeOS, which were basically just a full-screen browser, didn't feel very Linuxy. But I think current ChromeOS versions look and feel a lot like using a simplified Linux distro.
I don't have a strong opinion on whether ChromeOS should be grouped with traditional Linux distros for statistical purposes. But it is notable that Google maintains the two most most popular non-server OSs built on the Linux kernel.
I was wondering if I had read it right, dear god, who the hell viewd this and gave his approval ?
Fair guess but without reading the article I will guess it's not.
You should read tha article then