Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results 172
DeviceGuru writes "While the Linux Foundation's third annual desktop Linux survey doesn't officially end until November 30th, the number of daily respondents have shrunk to a trickle and the Foundation is working on analyzing the results. They now have up an early look at the raw data. For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey compared to fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey. Not surprisingly, the Ubuntu family of Linuxes is the most popular among organizations, at 54.1 percent. This was followed by the Red Hat family — RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora/CentOS) — with 50.2 percent. The Novell SUSE group — SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) and openSUSE — came in third, with 35.2 percent."
Re:No Debian? (Score:5, Funny)
[sarcasm]It's okay, Debian's in the Ubuntu family of Linuxes [/sarcasm]
Re:"Family"? (Score:2, Funny)
Von Neumann architectures?
Year of the Linux desktop (Score:5, Funny)
Re:percent? 54.1 + 50.2 + 35.2 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Links and respondents (Score:2, Funny)
Rounding Error?
Probably related to the logic that has 139.5% of the users reporting in already.
In any case, we certainly are not going to blame these little arithmetical peculiarities on Linux. How about we blame Vista, Internet Explorer, the RIAA, George W Bush, and Intel? Don't worry. Ron Paul, Ubuntu, the second amendment and the free market will pull us all through this little computational rough spot.
What did desktop linux users miss most? (Score:1, Funny)
> This was followed by the Red Hat family -- RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora/CentOS) -- with 50.2 percent.
> The Novell SUSE group -- SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) and openSUSE -- came in third, with 35.2 percent."
Q: What did desktop linux users miss most?
A: A reliable calculator!
Re:What did desktop linux users miss most? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:%139.5 ... you're counting wrong (Score:3, Funny)
You maybe have three Linux boxen but by the very use of the word "boxen" you already showed you own no common sense so your opinion is moot and ignored.
PCLinuxOS is first at distrowatch (Score:2, Funny)
Not just that.. (Score:5, Funny)
You forgot... (Score:1, Funny)
Medieval people thought of it first, lobbing a diseased cow over the wall. Only difference being our cow can be fired live and survive, though still killing the village, kinda like if it had BSE (or was it BSD?).....mmmmm.....ok scratch the cow, use a GNU or a penguin....can a gnu get BSE?......is BSD GNU?.....AHHHHH!
I wanna make a new distro now based on the above. It shouldn't be "Ubuntu : I am what I am because of what we all are", rather "Schadefreudex : I am what I am because of what everyone else is".
Re:Proof enough (Score:3, Funny)
After all, there's nothing like a distribution which occasionally breaks itself to teach you all about troubleshooting Linux.