LJ Index, May 2006

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  1. Smallest number of weblogs that mention "open source" per day: 500
  2. Largest number of weblogs that mention "open source" per day: 1050
  3. Smallest number of weblogs that mention "linux" per day: 1250
  4. Largest number of weblogs that mention "open source" per day: 2600
  5. Percentage of smartphones shipped with Linux in Q1 2004: 3.4
  6. Percentage of smartphones shipped with Linux in Q1 2005: 13.7
  7. Percentage increase of smartphones shipped with Linux between Q1s 2004 and 2005: 412
  8. Current Linux percentage share of advanced mobile OSes: 17
  9. Projected Linux percentage share of advanced mobile OSes by 2009: 29
  10. Billions of mobile phone subscribers worldwide by late 2005: 2
  11. Number of top 500 supercomputers that run on Linux: 360
  12. Percentage of top 500 supercomputers that run on Linux: 72
  13. Number of top 500 supercomputers that run on Linux distros: 30
  14. Percentage of top 500 supercomputers that run on Linux distros: 6
  15. Total number of Linux-based supercomputers in top 500: 390
  16. Percentage of Linux-based supercomputers in top 500: 78
  17. Number of Linux-based supercomputers in top 10: 5
  18. Position of the CNK/Linux-based IBM BlueGene/L in the top 500: 1
  19. Growth rate in size of the CNK/Linux-based IBM BlueGene/L in the last year: 2
  20. Top Linpack performance of the BlueGene/L, in terraflops: 280.6

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Sources: 1-, Technorati (during month of January, 2006. nNumbers rounded to nearest 50); 5-7, Gartner, via Linux Devices; 8-9, TDG, via Linux Devices; 11-20, Top 500 Supercomputer Sites (t500.org).

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8804000399.html

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4147346850.html

http://www.top500.org/