Linux owns less than 2 percent share of the desktop operating-system market, but mind share has spiked considerably in recent months since Sun and Novell have moved aggressively to grow the Linux ...

A couple of weeks ago, Canonical – the people behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution – hosted a talk by the great Scott Jenson, ...

It doesn’t give me any pleasure in saying this, but the evidence is overwhelming that Linux is not huge on the desktop. Saying it has maybe 1% of the desktop marketshare is probably not realistic, but ...

What just happened? In the ongoing rivalry between Windows and macOS, Linux has been consistently gaining market share on desktop computers in recent years. The latest data suggests that the combined ...

It ended a five year streak.

The annual assertion by open-source developers that the year of the Linux desktop is here may finally be more than a mere catchphrase. According to the web traffic analysis website StatCounter, Linux ...

Data from Statcounter shows that Linux managed to increase its market share in March after passing the 4% mark for the very first time in February. Market share could go up when Windows 10 is retired.

SteamOS hasn't brought about "the great exodus" to Linux, but it does teach distros how to do it right ...