I have read from many sources that the majority of the websites are running on Linux and UNIX like operating systems. So out of curiosity, I checked out what are the sites that I visit most often running on. I used http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph to get what each site is running, and the result is shown below:
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Site |
OS |
Share |
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zdnet.com |
Linux |
62% |
Linux and UNIX like OS: 86% |
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cnet.com |
Linux |
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news.bbc.co.uk |
Linux |
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slashdot.org |
Linux |
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osnews.com |
Linux |
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Google.com |
Linux |
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w3.org |
Linux |
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cnn.com |
Linux |
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pcworld.com |
Linux |
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bestbuy.com |
Linux |
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consumerreports.org |
Linux |
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codeguru.com |
Linux |
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wikipedia.org |
Linux |
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Flickr.com |
Linux |
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space.com |
Linux |
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weather.com |
Linux |
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vmware.com |
Linux |
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sourceforge.net |
Linux |
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dice.com |
Linux |
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npr.org |
Linux |
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pricegrabber.com |
Linux |
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nextag.com |
Linux |
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intel.com |
Linux |
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gnu.org |
Linux |
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betanews.com |
Linux |
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mailinator.com |
Linux |
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youtube.com |
Linux |
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symantec.com |
Linux |
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nasa.gov |
Linux |
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amazon.com |
Linux |
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captcha.net |
Linux |
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ibm.com |
AIX |
2% |
|
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yahoo.com |
FreeBSD |
6% |
|
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tomshardware.com |
FreeBSD |
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netcraft.com |
FreeBSD |
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zipzoomfly.com |
Solaris |
14% |
|
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walmart.com |
Solaris |
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circuitcity |
Solaris |
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sears.com |
Solaris |
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shutterfly.com |
Solaris |
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verisign.com |
Solaris |
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ams.org |
Solaris |
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computerworld.com |
Unix |
2% |
|
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trendmicro.com |
Win 2000, IIS 5 |
10% |
Windows 14% |
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ebay.com |
Win 2000, IIS 5 |
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extremetech.com |
Win 2000, IIS 5 |
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pcmag.com |
Win 2000, IIS 5 |
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newegg.com |
Win 2000, IIS 5 |
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microsoft.com |
Win 2003, IIS 6 |
4% |
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pinvoke.net |
Win 2003, IIS |
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And indeed, a whopping 86% of these sites are running Linux or UNIX like operating systems. What is more interesting is that among the 14% that runs on Microsoft Windows, only 2 of them (4%) is running Windows 2003. And of course, one of them is Microsoft.
Of course, these are just the sites I visit most often, I am sure that the statistics vary from person to person, but the picture is quite clear…
