Linux inches up on desktop, holds steady on servers

Linux’s share of the desktop market grew to 1.13 percent, says Net Applications, making Linux the only OS to improve its position in May. Meanwhile, Linux server share dropped to 20.8 percent, but revenue share grew to 16.8 percent, says IDC, and UC Berkeley’s Top500 survey shows Linux running on 91 percent of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers.