LJ Index, January 2009

  1. Number of finds in a search among Twitterers for "linux": 1540
  2. Number of OLPC followers on Twitter (which runs on Linux): 969
  3. Percentage of surveyed students who said college would be much harder without wi-fi: 79
  4. Percentage of surveyed students who said they wouldn't attend a college without wi-fi: 60
  5. Percentage of surveyed students who have checked Facebook or MySpace and sent or received e-mail while in class: 50
  6. Percentage of projected wi-fi penetration at universities by 2013: 99
  7. Number of acres in the University of Minnesota's 802.11n deployment: 1200
  8. Percentage running Linux or BSD among Netcraft's most reliable hosting companies for August 2008: 50
  9. Position of Linux-based Hurricane Electric among Netcraft's most reliable hosting companies for August 2008: 1
  10. Number of Linux-based among Netcraft's top 50 most reliable hosting companies for August 2008: 26
  11. Percentage of Internet traffic growth between mid-2007 and mid-2008: 53
  12. Percentage of Internet capacity utilized in the same period: 29
  13. Percentage of Internet peak utilization in the same period: 43
  14. Median wholesale $/Mb price in for a 1Gb IP transit port in New York in q2 2008: 10
  15. Median wholesale $/Mb price in for a 1Gb IP transit port in Hong Kong in q2 2008: 37
  16. Number of Ubuntu servers on which Wikipedia now runs: 400
  17. Millions of visitors to Wikipedia per year: 684
  18. Millions of articles in Wikipedia: 10
  19. Thousands of active contributors to Wikipedia: 75
  20. Number of languates used in Wikipedia: 250

Sources: 1-2, Twitter; 2, Netcraft.com; 3-5, Wakefield Research, via InformationWeek; 6, ABI Research, via InformationWeek; 7, InformationWeek; 8-10, Netcraft; 11-13, TeleGeography's Global Internet Geography; 14-15, ars technica; 16-20, Computerworld.

https://twitter.com/tw/search/users?q=linux

http://twitter.com/olpc

http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/wifiwimax/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210700329

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2008/09/technoratis_sta.html

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/964/

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081007-plunging-costs-show-theres-plenty-of-backbone-bandwidth.html

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Servers+and+Data+Center&articleId=9116787&taxonomyId=154&pageNumber=2