the day ubuntu cracked the top 100 at distrowatch

[wolfen69]

this http://web.archive.org/web/20040929104305/http://distrowatch.com/ is distrowatches web site from sept. 2004. check where ubuntu is listed. you'll love it!
my, how times have changed.

[angryfirelord]

Thanks for pointing that out! It's always interesting to see what distros are "in style" at a certain time. It shows how long Mandrake held the top until Ubuntu took over. ;-)

On a side note, I still think Ubuntu should include Mandriva's Control Center. I believe it is open-sourced.

[FuturePilot]

Wow. Very interesting. So Ubuntu was at one time a little heard of distro. Fascinating
My how things have changed.

[tbroderick]

So Ubuntu was at one time a little heard of distro.

It wasn't even released yet.

[wolfen69]

the beta was released a couple months before it went final.

[Lord Illidan]

Wow. Very interesting. So Ubuntu was at one time a little heard of distro. Fascinating
My how things have changed.

The good old days..my first exposure to Ubuntu was a sordid article in LXF about pornographic wallpapers :P

Nice review http://web.archive.org/web/20041010164149/www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8407

[kirios]

Thanks for pointing that out! It's always interesting to see what distros are "in style" at a certain time. It shows how long Mandrake held the top until Ubuntu took over. ;-)

On a side note, I still think Ubuntu should include Mandriva's Control Center. I believe it is open-sourced.
Distrowatch has an interesting feature this week:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070827#feature

No matter which indicator we take for the most representative, one thing is clear - Ubuntu is the top desktop Linux distribution at the moment.

Granted, the DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking doesn't mean all that much and we have been saying this for years.
Compare this...
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
with this...
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Ubuntu%2C+PC+Linux%2C+PC+Linux+OS%2C+PCLi nuxOS%2C+PCLOS
...and it makes you wonder why Distrowatch continues to publish Page Hit Rankings when even Ladislav Bodnar accepts that they are meaningless!

[angryfirelord]

Distrowatch has an interesting feature this week:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070827#feature


Compare this...
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
with this...
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Ubuntu%2C+PC+Linux%2C+PC+Linux+OS%2C+PCLi nuxOS%2C+PCLOS
...and it makes you wonder why Distrowatch continues to publish Page Hit Rankings when even Ladislav Bodnar accepts that they are meaningless!
The PCLOS forum isn't exploding with growth either. In fact, if you look at the bottom:

Most Online Today: 83. Most Online Ever: 511 (June 30, 2007, 01:47:52 PM)
That's really small compared to Ubuntu Forums:

Currently Active Users: 4796 (634 members and 4162 guests)
Most users ever online was 9,500, May 5th, 2007 at 12:45 PM
As you see, we have about 7x the people online at once. I'm sure the PCLOS guys inflate the distrowatch score big time.

[wolfen69]

it is still cool to see where ubuntu was and where it is now. follow the links on distrowatch and read the reviews and comments. very interesting.

[kirios]

it is still cool to see where ubuntu was and where it is now. follow the links on distrowatch and read the reviews and comments. very interesting.
Distrowatch's comments section is basically a new set of fan boys each week bashing anyone who doesn't agree with them!

[wolfen69]

i was referring to the original(2004) review of ubuntu 4.10 and the original (2004)comments on a different web site.