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Tux Aubrey
August 22nd, 2007, 10:22 PM
No surprises but some interesting trends and absences.

Desktop Linux 2007 Survey Results (http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html)

http://ubuntuforums.org/g/images/167727/1_2007-distributions.jpg

chimp_rex
September 4th, 2007, 08:52 AM
Way to go Ubuntu! But I hope this would not cause any bashing against other Linux OS but be a venue for other Linux OSes to improve and reach their market. :)

orange2k
September 4th, 2007, 11:27 AM
Perhaps the most interesting part of the article:

Perhaps the most surprising result of our survey was that PCLinuxOS showed so poorly. On DistroWatch, PCLinuxOS has been at the top of the site's page hit ranking for the last 30 days. Frankly, we're not sure why this popular, easy-to-use community distribution didn't do better. The site supporting it had recently had problems, but that problem's long been history. Perhaps, it's simply that unlike the other popular community distributions -- Ubuntu, openSUSE, and Fedora -- PCLinuxOS doesn't have corporate backing. Canonical, Novell, and Red Hat all provide support and hardware partnerships for their community distributions that PCLinuxOS can't match.

DoctorMO
September 4th, 2007, 12:49 PM
all provide support and hardware partnerships for their community distributions that PCLinuxOS can't match.

Or maybe it's just not that popular after all.

aimran
September 4th, 2007, 12:53 PM
I bet this study was sponsored by Ubuntu!





*hides in a corner*

Andrewie
September 4th, 2007, 01:32 PM
Isn't this kind of old, Ubuntu is still doing great (no surprise there), and OpenSuse made a massive jump. Gnome also came on top of KDE. Those are pretty much all the updates this time around.