Linux distribution statistics

[Nonno Bassotto]

Does anybody know where can I find statistic about the percentage of linux home users running a certain distribution?
Distrowatch gives an idea at the latest trends, but it is not very useful since
1. Many people click on a distro for curiosity
2. Many people rarely change distro

My personal guess would be something like (remember that I'm talking about home users, and this is a totally blind guess)
1 Mandrake(iva)
2 Fedora (or old redhat)
3 Ubuntu
4 Suse (Opensuse)
5 Debian

[aysiu]

As far as I know, there's no accurate measure of how many users each distribution has.

[DeadEyes]

Not what you looking for but interesting none the less
trends (http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2Csuse%2Credhat%2Cfedora%2Cmandrak e&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)

[drfalkor]

Wow,.. there is more users in norway, than in the rest of the country's ? :eek:

[chajuram]

It would be nice to have dependable statistics of the market share of different distributions. But I think Ubuntu has quite a large number of home users.

Chajuram.

[dvarsam]

Hello!

I was also wondering about this idea, but in a different way:

I have found in this Ubuntu Forum the Total # of members in the community!

Example:
Members: 120,094

How is this # figured out?


Does the # represent the # of Members since the first Launch of Ubuntu?

OR

The # represents the # of active members in the Ubuntu Family?

Because the later # should be a more accurate "picture" of how Ubuntu is performing!

Does anybody know?

Thanks.

[guine]

I wish I could remember where I got this from, but the other day I saw something that said redhat, open suse, and ubuntu were the most used linux distros.

[aboud]

by now things has changed, and i think ubuntu is the most popular;

if you try in google:
intitle:ubuntu you get 17,100,000 results
intitle:gentoo you get 4,360,000 results
intitle:fedora you get 4,200,000 results
intitle:suse you get 3,250,000 results
intitle:mandrake you get 887,000 results
intitle:redhat you get 604,000 results

[howefield]

by now things has changed, and i think ubuntu is the most popular;

if you try in google:
intitle:ubuntu you get 17,100,000 results
intitle:gentoo you get 4,360,000 results
intitle:fedora you get 4,200,000 results
intitle:suse you get 3,250,000 results
intitle:mandrake you get 887,000 results
intitle:redhat you get 604,000 results

Too many variables to make this dependable as a guide to popularity, but interesting way of looking at it.

[Shnatsel]

GNU/Linux counter has a statistics of linux distros in their database. http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en

Edit: http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.php is also interesting to look at.

[Paqman]

Mark Shuttleworth has a said a couple of times that Canonical estimates the number of Ubuntu users at around 8-10 million. This would presumably be based on hits on the repos.

[_outlawed_]

GNU/Linux counter has a statistics of linux distros in their database. http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en

Only works if the person behind the computer actually registers their linux system to that site, otherwise it's useless.

[cgroza]

The www.dudalibre.com/ should make a proportion of the registred users and the number of computers in the world and they should get at least something more than 1%.

[Verbeck]

found this link in recurring posted by a mod

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/14/%23ubuntu-classroom.html
@15:52
he says there are more than 12 million ubuntu users

[smellyman]

there is no reliable numbers of Linux desktop users, let alone each distro.

Edit: Hong Kong are big Fedora users....who knew?

[Lancro]

Ubuntu is the #1, theres a portal of software, very popular in spain, www.softonic.com (http://www.softonic.com) for more details (I think they are in english too), that has a linux and linux software part, there they put the popularity and the most downloaded apps, and ubuntu is the first, the second is wine, then linux nero, and a few apps more, mandriva is the eight.

But I havent looked only at that page, I was a windows user, like all I guess, and decided to try linux (one more time), So I looked the forums (a lot of people in here), and the apps, in a lot of aplications homepages, linux apps, you have the linux version for X11 and the deb file or the ubuntu ppa, ubuntu comes in a lot of software pages, more than fedora or mandriva, so thats the reason I choose ubuntu, well that and some articles that agrees in one point, ubuntu is the most friendly linux system, and that makes it easy of use, that point is taking new users to ubuntu, is a system of install and use, you dont really need to configure anything, it configures everything alone, and faster than windows does, so I think ubuntu is clearly hte linux number 1 distro, developers like it, users like it, its the best, I have no doubt.

[guimaster]

GNU/Linux counter has a statistics of linux distros in their database. http://www.dudalibre.com/gnulinuxcounter?lang=en

Edit: http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.php is also interesting to look at.

I am totally floored by those stats. Can Ubuntu really claim 60% of Linux users? Fedora only 3%? Wow!

[guimaster]

Not what you looking for but interesting none the less
trends (http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2Csuse%2Credhat%2Cfedora%2Cmandrak e&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all)

According to your link, every distribution tracked is losing users while Ubuntu has vastly gained and dwarfed them all. Why do people remain on a sinking ship?

[Verbeck]

I am totally floored by those stats. Can Ubuntu really claim 60% of Linux users? Fedora only 3%? Wow!
its the users who are claiming to use ubuntu, not the other way around

[Simian Man]

According to your link, every distribution tracked is losing users while Ubuntu has vastly gained and dwarfed them all. Why do people remain on a sinking ship?

Since Linux distros don't charge users, the fact that a distro has less users doesn't mean it's "sinking". I don't use Ubuntu because I think it's significantly worse than Fedora, and I don't care how many people agree with me.

Also those self-report sites are very dubious because Ubuntu users tend to be much louder than users of other distros.

Also this thread is ancient, I'm surprised it hasn't been closed.

[Spice Weasel]

by now things has changed, and i think ubuntu is the most popular;

if you try in google:
intitle:ubuntu you get 17,100,000 results
intitle:gentoo you get 4,360,000 results
intitle:fedora you get 4,200,000 results
intitle:suse you get 3,250,000 results
intitle:mandrake you get 887,000 results
intitle:redhat you get 604,000 results

That's a bad way of doing it, seeing as how Ubuntu is an African word for humanity, Gentoo is a species of penguin, Fedora is a type of hat and Mandrake is a plant that's featured in lotsa stories.

Btw, it's Mandriva now.

e: whoopsreplyingtoatwoyearoldpostwithoutrealising

[sydbat]

Also this thread is ancient, I'm surprised it hasn't been closed.I agree. I thought threadcromancy usually = closure too.

[philinux]

Waves hands and says a prayer.

Old Thread rest in peace.