Lynn Fredricks wrote:
Any idea what the distribution make up is of your listeners? Linspire is shipping on a lot of cheap consumer boxes and they've made it a fairly comfortable experience from someone coming from another platform.
It's pretty across the board. Ubuntu makes up the majority of disto's that our listeners use. By quite a large margin (well over half). The rest is all over the map. Fedora Core and Debian plain tend to be the most dominant of the non-Ubuntu distro's for our users (followed, to a much lower extent, by Open Suse, Arch, SLED, Xandros and Gentoo with no more than a few percentage points each).
A few things that I find valuable to know (I'll share these here since they may have an impact on someone developing for Linux desktop users):
- Roughly a quarter of our listeners use Compiz/Beryl on a daily basis. Over half have used it in the last 3 months but are not using it daily. - Of people that are using one specific application for music playback and organization, Amarok is the most popular by a wide margin (even on Gnome desktops).
These are, of course, just for the listener base of one podcast (but it's a big podcast).
The Windows <->Linux market is more significant than factoring the Mac in. Linux isnt nearly the debate it once was in the IT/Server market. Very interesting to be able to at least toy with the idea of breaking away from a lot of expensive Windows infrascture, even on a small scale.
Agreed. -Bryan _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
