The Great Linux World Map

N1ckR writes "Mrk has posted a fun Linux world map including 'The Suse Lake,' 'Noob Desert' and the 'Forbidden Land of Gentoo.' He said, 'The Great Linux World Map is a fun endeavor trying to portray the world of the Linux desktop as a sort of a Typus Orbis Terrarum. The map is no way representative in terms of actual market share usage or popularity. It's just a wild envisioning of how I see things, more or less.'"

Don’t get it

[Anrego]

All they did is give geographic-ish names to the various distros and randomly place them on a world map. Very little about the placement, and really not much about the names, is specific to the distros, and there are no distro specific features added and as is said in the summary this isn’t showing popularity or any other statistic. Ok, so Fedora is touching Red Hat,. the noobs are in ubuntu.. haha?

Am I just being thick and missing the point/humour here, or is this really just a dud?

Re:Don’t get it

[0racle]

I think it's a dud to generate traffic. By the summary itself, it's not based on anything but wild imagination.

Someone is trying to be xkcd.

xkcd knockoff?

[compulord155]

Anyone else notice that it looks strikingly like xkcd maps [xkcd.com] from the past [xkcd.com]? Of course with much less wit, organization and forethought.

Re:!XKCD

[Anonymous Coward]

So, just like xkcd then.