On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Steve Siegfried wrote:

> OS rankings published by OneStat.com on 14Aug2006:
>
>   > The 10 most popular operating systems in the world on the web are:
>   >
>   > 	1.  	Windows XP  		86.80%
>   > 	2. 	Windows 2000 		6.09%
>   > 	3. 	Windows 98 		2.68%
>   > 	4. 	Macintosh 		2.32%
>   > 	5. 	Windows ME 		1.09%
>   > 	6. 	Linux 			0.36%
>   > 	7. 	Windows NT 		0.24%
>   > 	8. 	Macintosh Power PC 	0.15%
>
> ...
>
>   > Methodology: A global usage share of xx percent
>   > for OS Y means that xx percent of the visitors
>   > of Internet users arrived at sites that are
>   > using one of OneStat.com's services by using the
>   > particular number of OS Y. All numbers mentioned
>   > in the research are averages and all measurements
>   > are normalised to the GMT timezone. Research is
>   > based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided
>   > into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day.


Is it possible that Linux machines don't identify as such?  I don't know 
why a machine would give it's OS to a web site!  It seems like a bad idea, 
so maybe Linux users avoid it.

Linux definitely has more market share on the server, as you suggested.

Mike