Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results

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?

[cyphercell]

[sarcasm]It's okay, Debian's in the Ubuntu family of Linuxes [/sarcasm]

Re:"Family"?

[Glowing Fish]

What would be the kingdom?

Von Neumann architectures?

Year of the Linux desktop

[cstdenis]

It's official, 2008 will be the year of the Linux desktop.

Re:percent? 54.1 + 50.2 + 35.2

[malraid]

This time twice as many people filled the survey, so instead of 100% like last time, this one goes up to 200%!!!

Re:Links and respondents

[vtcodger]

***The results say the current number of respondents is 10941 (and counting). Where did the figure of 20,000 come from?***

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?

[Anonymous Coward]

> 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."

Q: What did desktop linux users miss most?
A: A reliable calculator!

Re:What did desktop linux users miss most?

[Anonymous Coward]

'The OP's joke will now be passing over MikeUW's head at 40,000 feet. Stewardesses: please jettison the toilets.' * WOOOOOOSSSSSH *

Re:%139.5 ... you're counting wrong

[turbidostato]

" I have boxen that run all three."

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

[bunbuntheminilop]

but gets only 5.4% in this survey. I don't understand what's going on.

Not just that..

[schon]

But does anyone else here see the irony of a Linux survey being hosted on an IIS server?

You forgot...

[Anonymous Coward]

4. Why not just refrain from installing antivirus, fire up wine and go shopping on some xxx/warez-pages with IE. Then afterwards admire your little virtual zoo in /home/username/.wine . Oh, and don't forget to rename your computer "Typhoid_Mary" and make the wine-folder available to teh internetz.

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

[jimicus]

Absolutely correct.

After all, there's nothing like a distribution which occasionally breaks itself to teach you all about troubleshooting Linux.