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Does anyone have any info on how much usership Linux has now?
 
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Hmm, you mean max no. of users ?
libc5 seems to limit this to 65535.
Linux kernel 2.2.14 (last stable version as far as I know)
limits this to 'unisgned short' as well. So seems, 65536
users is the max.

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I was thinking more along the lines of how many linux boxes are there vs. how many Windows boxes are there, etc.
 
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This should answer your question:
http://usatoday.elibrary.com/s/usatoday/getdoc.cgi?id=159774969x127y36759w0&OIDS=0Q001D000&Form=RL&pubname=USA_Today&puburl=http~C~~S~~S~www.usatoday.com&querydocid=854270@library_ q&dtype=0~0&dinst=0
 
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Paul, why do you ask?
 
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