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2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed (DesktopLinux.com)
DesktopLinux.com presents
the results
from the 2007 Desktop Linux Survey.
"The leading Linux distribution is the Ubuntu family -- 30 percent of our survey respondents are using Ubuntu or one of its sister distributions: Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu. While there are other distributions that owe a great deal to Ubuntu -- Linspire, Freespire, MEPIS, Linux Mint, and Pioneer all come quickly to mind -- we decided not to count them for Ubuntu this year, since some, like Freespire, have just made the switch, while others, such as MEPIS, are switching back to Debian, and Pioneer is going in its own direction. Next in popularity, after the ever-popular Ubuntu family, comes the SUSE Linux family with 21 percent."
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2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed (DesktopLinux.com) Posted Aug 23, 2007 16:58 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link] I wouldn't put much value on these results. When I tried to vote, I was told that a vote had already been registered from my IP address. I imagine this was some sort of ISP web cache thing. You would get the same effect from behind a corporate NAT, explaining their observation that "the majority of our respondents were individual rather than corporate users".
2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed (DesktopLinux.com) Posted Aug 23, 2007 19:23 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] I had never even *heard* of PCLinuxOS before this article.
2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed (DesktopLinux.com) Posted Aug 23, 2007 22:02 UTC (Thu) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] distrowatch.com, if you're bored.
Note: The "popularity" rankings on the right column are only a measure of clicks that each distro gets on the site.
2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed (DesktopLinux.com) Posted Aug 24, 2007 9:46 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] I found it on the site you mention one day I was bored, and it seems to be the hot thing right now, actually. For the impatient, PCLinuxOS is basically a Mandriva fork with useful packages for Flash, Java and other proprietary stuff. Nothing radically new here.
counting desktop users Posted Aug 24, 2007 5:24 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] From the article: this year's survey produced 38,500 votes [...] After all, 38,000 plus users and two major PC companies can't be wrong.Even the old Linux counter (http://counter.li.org/) demonstrates there are many more desktop users: 136 128 users and 152 299 machines registered. Of the machines, 94 764 are reported to be "workstations" (http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.php). So I would say that there definitely are at least that many desktop linux users, and almost certainly an order of magnitude more, since registration to the Linux counter takes extra effort, and most newbies probbaly don't even know it exists. The counter also removes from the count entries that have not been refreshed for two years, so it is not just a case of counting casual interest.
counting desktop users Posted Aug 30, 2007 20:06 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link] Numbers don't say much about validity. Statistics and information aboutpossible biasses do. And there are some statistically weird things that happened there. For example, at friday night between 3 and 4 (the poll was running for 3 days, 25.000 votes approx) there where almost 3000 votes, 2700 of them for the exact combination of Suse, Gnome, Evolution, Firefox and some other stuff. Pretty unlikely (you don't need statistics for that) and I think it's pretty clear someone has been messing with the stats (this is not the only anomaly, btw).
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