On Friday 21 October 2005 09:56 am, Randomthots wrote: > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use NDISWRAPPER with SUSE, it works fairly well, as a matter of fact I'm using it now. (Toshiba A75-S213) -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
