Who is using Linux?

Who is using Linux today? This is a problem that needs to be understood. According to a recent global survey completed by the Linux foundation, this year's Global linux user base has become more popular than last year. Who are Linux users? What are they doing?

According to a global survey of the Linux Foundation, 69.4% of Linux users work for "Small Businesses" (with a total of less than 100 employees, 43.3% of them are IT professionals (including software developers ). Most of their use of Linux has been recognized by "boss" ("boss"). That is to say, 64.1% of them have moved their Linux computers to their own offices, he started his own work. Most enterprises that use Linux do not reject windows. More than half of them deploy Linux jobs. However, most of these enterprises (more than half) windows is still used as the work platform.

The Linux Foundation survey found that 53.3% of enterprises use Linux for software development work environments, but almost 2/3 (66.1%) the Enterprise has used it as a general "workbench" ("client desktop. This means that Linux is no longer simply treated (used) as an "Operating System ). The Office kit in the Linux software package has already taken the stage of history ".

The Linux Foundation survey found that, as an operating system, most of its users (76%) absolutely believe that Linux can take on key tasks, 17.3% of Linux users believe that Linux desktop can take on more important tasks. The survey also found that the usage of Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Linux, and SuSE Linux was 55.2%, 51.3%, and 32.9%, respectively, none of which were dominant.

The Linux Foundation survey report shows some objective information about the global linux user group, which is very meaningful.