Tally of distros on DistroWatch

[anarkhos]

If you go to distrowatch.com, and look at the right side, you will see a list of distros under the title `Page Hit Ranking`.

I had wondered what these 100 distros would look like if one grouped them by parent distro.

I did this just now (Mar 16 2010) according to *my* parent categories. And this is what I got:


distro name ... daily hits ... percentage of total
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ubuntu: 9352 daily hits ... (29%)
independent: 4023 daily hits ... (13%)
debian: 3254 daily hits ... (10%)
fedora: 1878 daily hits ... (6%)
bsd: 1765 daily hits ... (6%)
red hat: 1596 daily hits ... (5%)
slackware: 1593 daily hits ... (5%)
gentoo: 1574 daily hits ... (5%)
suse: 1545 daily hits ... (5%)
mandriva: 1404 daily hits ... (5%)
arch: 1259 daily hits ... (4%)
puppy: 1049 daily hits ... (4%)
pclinuxos: 844 daily hits ... (3%)
solaris: 576 daily hits ... (2%)
knoppix: 394 daily hits ... (2%)
sidux: 360 daily hits ... (2%)
zenwalk: 353 daily hits ... (2%)
slitaz: 194 daily hits ... (1%)
lfs: 135 daily hits ... (1%)


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fyi, my categories:


$parents = array(
'arch'=>array('arch','chakra','linuxgamers'),
'damnsmall'=>array('damnsmall'),
'debian'=>array('debian','epidemic','mepis','untangle','musi x','dreamlinux','elive','hymera','pureos','clonezi lla'),
'fedora'=>array('fedora','linpus'),
'bsd'=>array('freebsd','pcbsd','openbsd','netbsd','bsdany where','dragonfly','freenas'),
'gentoo'=>array('gentoo','sabayon','calculate'),
'independent'=>array('tinycore','cdlinux','geexbox','64studio','v ector','tinyme','alt','gparted','turbolinux','nuty x','moblin','pardus','frugalware','systemrescue',' partedmagic','yoper','blackpanther','linuxconsole' ,'parsix','xandros'),
'kanotix'=>array('kanotix'),
'knoppix'=>array('knoppix'),
'kurumin'=>array('kurumin'),
'lfs'=>array('lfs'),
'mandriva'=>array('mandriva','unity'),
'morphix'=>array('morphix'),
'suse'=>array('opensuse','novellsle'),
'pclinuxos'=>array('pclinuxos'),
'puppy'=>array('puppy','macpup'),
'red hat'=>array('redhat','centos','yellowdog','scientific',' clearos','linuxxp'),
'rpath'=>array('rpath'),
'sidux'=>array('sidux'),
'slackware'=>array('slackware','austrumi','absolute','wolvix',' slax','goblinx','mopslinux'),
'slitaz'=>array('slitaz'),
'solaris'=>array('solaris','opensolaris','nexenta'),
'ubuntu'=>array('ubuntu','ebox','deft','kubuntu','debris','i magic','zorin','pud','zevenos','opengeu','ulite',' ubuntuchristian','gnewsense','mint','ultimate','cr unchbang','backtrack','gos','xubuntu','nubuntu','w attos','ubuntustudio','pcos','easypeasy','moonos', 'mythbuntu','superos'),
'zenwalk'=>array('zenwalk'),
'unassigned'=>array('unassigned'),
);

[themarker0]

BSD needs to climb up :/ I guess most people using it already know the site, and enough to use it.

[Khakilang]

It look like Ubuntu at the top spot for quite some time. Seem that no distro overtake them.

[anarkhos]

Here are current numbers (2010-10-14):

distro name ... daily hits ... percentage of total
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ubuntu: 8566 daily hits ... (30%)
independent: 3274 daily hits ... (12%)
debian: 3012 daily hits ... (11%)
slackware: 1734 daily hits ... (6%)
fedora: 1647 daily hits ... (6%)
red hat: 1440 daily hits ... (5%)
bsd: 1368 daily hits ... (5%)
suse: 1349 daily hits ... (5%)
arch: 1285 daily hits ... (5%)
gentoo: 1221 daily hits ... (5%)
puppy: 1054 daily hits ... (4%)
mandriva: 963 daily hits ... (4%)
pclinuxos: 934 daily hits ... (4%)
zenwalk: 353 daily hits ... (2%)
knoppix: 259 daily hits ... (1%)
solaris: 233 daily hits ... (1%)
slitaz: 162 daily hits ... (1%)
minix: 145 daily hits ... (1%)
lfs: 117 daily hits ... (1%)

[themarker0]

BSD lost ground :(