Linux Popularity

[eth0enigma 6]

I found this today i thought it was pretty interesting how they determined the popularity of different distros

http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=340

for those of you that are into distro bashing

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[Aghaster 23]

Hum... interesting. However, I think think this will cause an OS war, it is just some research on the distribution of people who use certain distros.

/me uses debian

[Spyril 13]

Interesting. I would have thought that Debian would have been more popular than Fedora.

[w3lshrarebit 2]

Interesting. I would have thought that Debian would have been more popular than Fedora.

I can see that. There are a lot of governmental bodies around the world that use Linux (and really, doesn't that make sense?) and Fedora is probably better suited to their overall needs/maintenance requirements. I'm more confused about Finland, you'd think they would have more usage in general. Very interesting indeed.

[livinded 9]

There is very little statistical information specified on the page meaning the results are not necessarily correct or non skewed. It doesn't mention how population density, area of land, or comparisons between population of one area to another are handled.

[oblivion 0]

i dont think that the results are 100% correct....anyway it looks quite interesting

[Rivelli 0]

I also thought that Debian would have been more popular. I use Debian. My second favorite for when I really care about performance is Gentoo. I like how Gentoo is really popular in Russia. Damn hardcore Russians.

[mirrorshades 3]

Hm... depending on how you define "popularity", I would think that frequency of use of search terms on an Internet search engine is a rather shaky way to assess which distros are more popular than others.

Although this is interesting (if a bit off-topic for the thread): http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat...clp=&cmpt=q