[Stryke 9]

I know the reasons for it. I'm not looking for the reasons WHY Macs are computers and Linuxes aren't. (now THERE's a name) And you're just flat-out wrong on the "old Mac" bit. I ran Carrara on a G4 for about 4 months recently, and it took it about ten minutes to render an untextured sphere- this is a piece of software that runs damn fast compared to LightWave and MAX on my PC. I ran Photoshop, and the damn ting crashed because I also had a word-processor up. On my next try, Photoshop ran so slowly I thought the computer had locked up.

Anyway. S' true about the numbers. Linux gets well-represented online (but hardly 60%, I'd say 20% was a tad high), BECAUSE Linux is generally used by geeks and programmers, and guess what type of people are most attracted to the internet? There's a reason Star Wars fanfic-furries porn and fantasy games are big online.
So many of the major webpage operators, forumites, hackers, and porn vendors end up being Linux users. The percent of people with computer access who regularly use the most visible parts of the internet (meaning this sort of thing, not AOL Instant Messenger or AudioGalaxy/Napster/Kazaa/Gnucleus/whatever) is tiny. The vast majority of computer users already have Windows, and thus likely they woll continue to have Windows.

[an0n]

Uh, not the G4. The 1980's Mactinosh™. Just about every college and university graphics department in the UK uses them.

EDIT:

. But at the same time it should be remembered that 70% of internet traffic is destined for UNIX like servers, with the rest being spread over a variety of proprietary systems. Unix is also the predominant system for academic servers (where highly skilled would be attackers abound).

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/9267/fud2.html#no4

Hardly impartial but still, facts is facts.

[Stryke 9]

I was using the least of two examples, since the other was just too bad to be credible. The same place where the G4 was, there was another Mac- don't know if it had a name, but it was early-90s at the latest at any rate. Couldn't do anything more than word-processing, and wasn't all that hot at that, either, if you were using a fancier word-processor. For the time it was made, it looks like it woulda been fast (I have a PC from about then, and it's a good deal slower), but it simply sucks for now.

[Top Gun]

and guess what type of people are most attracted to the internet? [/B]

That's a bit of an assumption although I wish it were true, there would be a lot less crap online. Of course what does that say about GNU/Linux/BSD when a greater proportion of people in the know use it to those who are ignorant. Especially with the swill bucket rattling (advertizing and marketing) capabilities of Microsoft.


Seriously, If I had to run a server I would laugh in the face of anyone who even suggested using Microsoft software. The only reason to use Windows over .nix is ease of use (which is becoming less and less of an issue) and software support but for the server .nix gives you everything you could possibly want for free.


P.S.  Has anyone ever used Open VMS?