Madhusudan Singh wrote:
... given the current realities.
Let us see what distrowatch shows :
http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
If you add up the hit count (for the last 1 month) for Debian and Debian
based / compatible distributions and others separately in the top 10
distros, you get :
7128 for Debian debs (adding Debian, Ubuntu, MEPIS, Knoppix, Damn Small and
Kubuntu)
3027 for RH rpms(adding Mandriva and Fedora - they are largely compatible
with each other)
2282 for SuSe rpms (IMO greatly inflated due to recent release of version
10.0, but let us set that aside).
591 for Slackware tgz's
That may or may not mean much. Personally in the last month I have
downloaded (not necessarily installed):
Suse 10
LunarLinux
SimplyMepis
ArkLinux
Kubuntu
PuppyLinux
VectorLinux
Heidelberg
All in hopes of getting a distro that could run the wireless card on my
Toshiba laptop. Arklinux, which I believe is Debian-based, can't swear
to it now, wouldn't even install, and Mepis was a disaster (didn't know
what to do with my video or sound and had some real weird bugs).
Anyway, I'm currently running FC4 on two machines, including the other
side of this dual-boot box.
I also have Smoothwall and Devil-Linux for a firewall box I'm hoping to
build.
Point being that downloaded doesn't necessarily equate to usage.
Rod
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