Some statistics from the newly released Top 500 supercomputers list. Linux might be slightly behind on the Desktop market but here... well.. I don't think it needs any comments:
Linux 469
Unix 20
Mixed 7
Windows 3
BSD-based 1
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Operating System Count
Linux 419
AIX 18
Cray Linux Environment 14
CNK/SLES 9 7
SLES10 + SGI ProPack 5 7
bullx SUperCOmputer Suite A.E.2.1 5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 5
CNL 4
RHEL 6.2 4
CentOS 4
Redhat Linux 3
RedHat Enterprise 5 2
Windows HPC 2008 2
Open Solaris 1
Cell OS 1
SUSE Linux 1
RHEL 6.1 1
Windows Azure 1
Super-UX 1
Linux count over the years:
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Nov 2012 419
Jun 2012 419
Nov 2011 414
Jun 2011 417
Nov 2010 416
Jun 2010 412
Nov 2009 400
Jun 2009 391
Nov 2008 395
Jun 2008 384
Nov 2007 395
Jun 2007 359
Nov 2006 346
Jun 2006 351
Nov 2005 361
Jun 2005 312
Nov 2004 303
Jun 2004 290
Nov 2003 198
Jun 2003 139
Nov 2002 71
Jun 2002 67
Nov 2001 38
Jun 2001 43
Nov 2000 53
Jun 2000 28
Nov 1999 18
Jun 1999 17
Nov 1998 1
Jun 1998 1