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What was the guy thinking? Posting a link to his server hosted on his DSL line? By the way the new netcraft pages look cool!

Linux/Apache!!! http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/hosted?netname=WIPON ET,193.5.88.0,193.5.95.255

I'd be willing to bet that you have your numbers the wrong way around.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites?s=1#1 shows that news.bbc.co.uk is the 9th most popular site with /. as 32nd.
Also most of the additional content (pictures, audio & video clips) is part of the bbc site, just served by other servers in the same netblock (aka they have servers that do most of the web page & text with others providing non-text elements). /. is only text (all pictures (ads) are served by external servers) so would serve even less in terms of BW.

Here's one of the sources. Sorry about that, I cited it in some other posts but forgot in this one :) The other sources were places like newsforge, but the exact links I can't seem to find right now. My intent was not to start any kind of flame war, just to note an observation. The misinformation spread on slashdot recently is ridiculous and I'm just trying to counter it a bit. Whether or not someone agrees with me though I guess is a different story.
Regards,
Steve

He is quoting a survey that did NOT include Ubunutu, as discussed previously.

Ever visit a benign website with an ad banner from a server farm that was own3d?

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/11/22/the_r egister_among_sites_serving_banner_malware.html

it's a really bad idea to surf with IE. It's a pretty bad idea to surf on a machine that has IE installed (some malware will be able to invoke IE to do its dirty work even if you hit the page via another browser)

I grant that within the limits you specified, you are correct. Non-forwarded NAT will protect you from external worms. It will not protect you from multi-vector threats. Some spread via tcp connections on tcp 135 | 445, email, AND web compromise. So once you hit that bad patch of teh intarwebs you are now spewing email viri and scanning the local and distant net.

According to Netcraft, they're the 9th most popular site on the web. That's after several variations of Google, and toolbar.netcraft.com... so take with heaps of NaCl.

That negative image that you're thinking of is non-existant. Its just a small group of people making a bunch of noise.
Regards,
Steve

What do you mean if they learned anything? Fedora has come to be one of the most successful distros yet. Sure some users left Red Hat (an upper maximum of 10,000) but they gained 400,000 in Fedora and their Enterprise line is doing better then ever. Red Hat is doing everything right, while also being a major backbone in open source development (most of those programs you use have a lot of code from Red Hat paid engineers). There is a reason Michael Dell just invested 99.5 million in the company, he sees it going places. Why should they change? Their growth rates have never been stronger.
Regards,
Steve

You might want to read this.
Regards,
Steve

Read this. Ubuntu is nothing but a bunch of previous debian unstable and testing users who migrated. Fedora is one of the leading distros and hs been for a while. It's gained that much popularity and it isn't even 2 years old yet. If you've never used Fedora then you wouldn't understand how great and seamless it all works together. In fact, Ubuntu uses Gnome and most of Gnome was coded by Red Hat and Fedora engineers (along with a significant chunk from Ximian too) and they continue to advance it to this very day. Ubuntu is not competition for Fedora, Ubuntu is just some Debian users shifting over.
Regards,
Steve

I think you are being a little naïve. That web sit is just the root. If you click on the Netblock owner (National Institutes of Health) link you'll see all the websites HHS runs. Not only are there are many MS servers there are also many Linux and Solaris as well. http://toolbar.netcraft.com/netblock?q=NIHNET-2,13 7.187.0.0,137.187.255.255

I think you mean http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=www.hh s.gov [Netcraft]

"An NIH source says there are no plans to "unseat" Microsoft products, which are widely used throughout HHS."

Microsoft's got a huge lock on groupware, with Outlook/Exchange locking seats to Microsoft with each other's installation, and locking each to Windows (and vice versa) with each installation of Microsoft's OS.

Novell sells groupware that competes directly with Exchange. They even provide code, sales and frontline support services to Netline's Open-Xchange, the open source project upon which much of their high-end groupware is based. O-X connects transparently to Outlook, and natively to Evolution, Netscape, and other open source clients that run on SuSE Linux, which Novell supports to the same extent. And O-X is middleware that connnects to servers like Postgres, Tomcat, postfix, OpenLDAP (all of which are open source, or have swap-in replacement open source alternatives). O-X interoperates with all these apps via standard protocols and data formats, including Outlook, so all the other software we add to the system that uses those standards continues to work.

Novell's arrangement puts Linux into a giant organization, backed by serious support and development. It's the thin edge of a wedge backed by other apps that can further displace Microsoft's hegemony there. Just like all the Linux/Apache servers that mushroomed everywhere in the last 5 years, including HHS no doubt, without a plan, but which reduced the IIS grip on the market to an also-ran. HHS runs its webserver on Windows/IIS today - after this Novell contract is operational, that will probably change. How long after that will Exchange go the way of IIS? And with IT able to just call Novell for support, and Novell sales calling to sell their O-X line, how long will it take for wily HHS geeks to quietly replace Exchange without the suits even noticing? Then, once Novell and Netline have feedback from a huge paying enterprise customer like HHS, and all their vast array of extranet partners, how long before no one notices that the plug has been pulled on IIS for good, except Microsoft and Novell?

According to Netcraft, it certainly does:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.msn.co.kr

Have a look

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.msn.co.kr/

Look for nameserver. At last proof positive !!!

According to netcraft.

(I was expecting this to be an 'ironically linux', but no)

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=msn.co.kr

http://msn.co.kr/ was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows Server 2003 when last queried at 3-Jun-2005 04:32:08 GMT - refresh now Site Report
Try out the Netcraft Toolbar! FAQ
OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner
Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 26-Dec-2004 207.46.78.16 Microsoft Corp
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 1-Nov-2004 207.46.78.16 Microsoft Corp
Windows 2000 unknown 31-Oct-2004 207.46.78.16 Microsoft Corp
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 12-Sep-2004 207.46.78.16 Microsoft Corp
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 8-May-2004 207.46.68.21 Microsoft Corp
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 13-Feb-2003 207.46.68.21 Microsoft Corp
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 29-Jun-2002 207.46.89.101 Microsoft Corp
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 8-Jan-2002 207.68.182.61 Microsoft Corp
Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 28-Nov-2001 207.68.182.53 Microsoft Corp
FreeBSD Microsoft-IIS/5.0 27-Nov-2001 207.68.182.53 Microsoft Corp

No uptime is currently available for msn.co.kr.

From Netcraft:

Windows Server 2003
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 9-Dec-2004

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.msn.co.kr

While reading the summary I noticed a Microsoft ad.

"We got to market six months faster, and saw 14 percent in cost savings over Linux." --Owen Flynn, Chief Technology Officer, Equifax, Inc.

They know this because they moved the same service to market twice? If so, wouldn't it go faster the second time? If not, how do they know? And why is it we don't see Microsoft here? There's task #1 for the Linux Union.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/hosters

proof of their eval - they are #4 most phishiest hosting company!

(anyone have an explanation for this?)

There aren't many people evaluating pages. It's page rank is only 513,258; right after the ever-talked-about talk.guns.ru.

There is no GNU/Linux per se. Ask Linus.
What did you mean by dead? Linux? It is looks so - http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

Hosting Company

Netcraft will identify, contact and liaise with the company responsible for hosting the fraudulent content. Netcraft enjoys excellent relations with the hosting community, and many of the world's largest hosting companies are Netcraft customers. Netcraft can exercise its existing relationships with these companies to provide a swift and smooth response to the detection of the site. If the hosting company is reputable, this may be sufficient to ensure a prompt end to the fraudulent activity.

However, some hosting companies offer fraud hosting as a service whereby they are incentivized to keep the site up as long as possible, and this necessitates more extensive action.

RTF Server Load Balancing by Tony Bourke. After reading that book you will at least know what you need to look for. Also, you can outsource your load balancing if that is optimal for your needs using something like the Akamai's servers (Microsoft.com uses Akamai, Netcraft confirms).

when Netcraft just released their anti-phishing plugin for firefox ;)

OK I WILL flame. And massively:

I'm sick and tired of slashdot doing free advertisement for apple. OK some personns are switching to apple. So.. Big news

Apple is not the nice and ethical company some of you seem to think. Take a look at what they say on eff site about Itune's EULA, that's creepy...
http://www.eff.org/wp/eula.php

They have contributed only mildy to open source (imho). They have behaved very badly with khtml and the technologies they have open-sourced are either:
_technologies where they have a direct interest in seeing them being adopted (rendez-vous).
_Stuff they haven't really an edge on. It's in their interest to see them neing improved.

They have not opened interesting things like core-image.

They have also proven to do everything to try to ensure a monopoly where they could (itms and itunes, closed policy on quicktime etc..).

For a defaut user the security is better under Os-X. However they have mad some major conception mistakes (such as using the same engine for safary and dashboard). And also I cannot any os-X listed in netcraft performance analysis:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/performance.html

To sum things up: they make very nice looking machines, a nicely finished os, but they have proven to be nearly (if not as much) unethical as microsoft. And os-X has some flaws, it is very usuable but in no ways perfect.

I read slashdot to be informed about what goes on in the computer world (specially the free software world). I don't read slashdot to learn that some obscure uninteresting chap has switched from windows to os-X.

I will stop reading slashdot if it continues annoying me with free apple advertisement.

Till Varoquaux

I read a lot of "corporate" blogs, and I think it's pretty easy to spot the ones that understand blogging, those that are chasing the bandwagon. Blogs are a really effective tool for sharing business expertise in a way that builds relationships with potential customers and partners. They work well because they're different from the tired old approaches to sales/marketing communications. The key is to talk about your industry using an authentic voice rather than marketing-speak. Some enlightened companies are figuring that out and making effective use of blogs. Other posts are sharing some fine examples of this. I'll offer one that doesn't get talked about much: Go Daddy's use of a CEO blog accompanying its Super Bowl ads. But for every clueful effort there's plenty of other companies who see blogs as a way to deliver the same old sales and marketing message, only via a blog. It doesn't work, and is painful to read. Those companies will claim blogs are a fad, and blame the format. Doh!

ActiveX on PCs is a problem, and Java, and Javascript, and many port protocol exploits on MSWin, but trojans run by users willingly on any OS will outshine even those entry vectors, but for SERVERS, nothing is as secure as MacOS.

Despite many high profile web sites and servers using OS9 for many years, not one database entry in the large BugTraq database documents a remote explloit for Mac OS in the history of the internet.

Even the US Army used macs exclusively (mostly MacOS 9 until recently) after being rooted rouitinely using unix and MS Windows NT. For many many years www.army.mil has been run on macintoshes exclusively.

The same is true of many colleges that were rooted and defaced too often on Linux. They installed WebStar and OS 9 and never had to worry again.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.army .mil

http://www.google.com/search?q=army+webstar+"os-9"

Check it out yourself. This entire post is full of factual citations and 100% facts.

No mac in the history of the internet hosting a web server has ever been rooted or defaced remotely.

Why?

Because not one version of Mac OS has ever had a single exploitable hole ever discovered. (classic mac os now up to version 9.2.2 on currenlty sold g4 towers). OpenBSD has had no less than 5 holes (not one) in the default install in the last two years. Mac OS has had ZERO in over 8 years, even when paired up with its preferred web server app.

In fact in the entire SecurityFocus (BugTraq) database history there has never been a Mac exploited over the internet remotely. Scan it yourself.

That is why the US Army gave up on MS IIS and got a Mac for a web serve. Currently it is a honeypot for OSX testing, and US Army use regular Mac OS on other internal servers

This post is not talking about FreeBSD derived MacOS X (which already had a more than a 50 exploits and potential exploits in BugTraq database, and in the news yesterday with Symantec claiming in March 2005 of OSX having remote exploits) I am talking about current Mac OS 9.x and earlier which are highly sophisticated abstract-OS models.

Why is is hack proof? These reasons :

1> No command shell. No shell means no way to hook or intercept the flow of control with many various shell oriented tricks found in Unix or NT. Apple uses an object model for procces to process communication that is heavily typed and "pipe-less"

2> No Root user. All mac developers know their code is always running at root. Nothing is higher (except undocumented microkernel stufff where you pass Gary Davidian's birthday into certain registers and make a special call). By always being root there is no false sense of security, and programming is done carefully.

3> Pascal strings. ANSI C Strings are the number one way people exploit Linux and Wintel boxes. The mac avoids C strings historically in most of all of its OS. In fact even its roms originally used Pascal strings. As you know pascal strings are faster than C (because they have the length delimiter in the front and do not have to endlessly hunt for NULL), but the side effect is less buffer exploits. Individual 3rd party products may use C stings and bind to ANSI libraries, but many do not. In case you are not aware of what a "pascal string" is, it usually has no null byte terminator. Additionally certain types of compilers can check range on assignments to prevent out of bounds. Furthermore many good programmers ensure that the bounds are not overwritten.

4> Macs running Webstar have ability to only run CGI placed in correct directory location and correctly file "typed" (not mere file name extension). File types on Macs are not easily settable by users, expecially remotely. Apache as you know has had many problems in earlier years preventing w

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

--
Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Red Hat has all the limelight because they deserve it.
1) Red Hat and Fedora together have over 2 million active servers according to Netcraft, whereas Suse has under half a million.
2)Red Hat does a ton for the community, are experienced, and make a very easy to use distro while retaining the full power of linux.
3) Red Hat's core and only business is Linux. Novell just jumped on the Linux ship because it was failing in other areas, and if Novell sees another oppurtunity to make more money with something else, they'll jump off the linux ship and move on to whatver else they want. Red Hat's whole business is linux.
3) Read this.

Red Hat takes the initiative and keeps the community moving foward. They deserve everything that comes to them.
Regards,
Steve

Netcraft already does this. There may be others. Domain registrars are ideally positioned to nip this in the bud. The problem is that there are lots of phishing methods that don't rely on the domain name to spoof users.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

--
Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

--
Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

Actually, it's not even two-thirds of all web servers. It's two-thirds of all web site *DOMAINS* run on Apache. Remember, domain != server.

Netcraft has done some statistics in the past that shows how this breaks down.

These statistics are grossly out of date, of course. However, given that MS's general percentage of hosts hasn't changed much over the last few years the Windows stats are probably still close to accurate. Also, the Linux percentage is probably much higher because most of the people running Unix webservers have converted to Linux over the last few years (which is likely why the Unix webservers have dropped so much). Of course this is speculation, but would explain the drop in non-apache Unix servers.

Despite this, two-thirds of all webservers run Linux.

No. Two-thirds of all publicly visible web servers found by netcraft run Apache, but this includes many other operating systems.

Despite this, two-thirds of all webservers run Linux.

No. Two-thirds of all publicly visible web servers found by netcraft run Apache, but this includes many other operating systems.

WHAT??? You're a moron. Check this link out for some stats on Apache servers in use vs. MS servers. Apache FAR outnumbers IIS. And MS's SQL implementations are so insecure as to render them practically irrelevant. How about thinking before putting fingers to keyboard next time.

No wonder Nintendo.com went down, it's running a Gamecube Web Server!!! http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=nintendo. com

(Yeah, yeah, Solaris OS... Blah blah blah)

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

I'm talking about the main site: http://www.army.mil/

Go troll somewhere else.

Netcraft confirms it: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.army.mil

Nope, they run FreeBSD, according to Netcraft.

Look at the number of vulnerablities for IIS(247) vs. the number for Apache(290). Now consider Apache has about 70% and IIS has about 21% of the webserver market. By your theory Apache should have a lot more vulnerabilities because it's "under the microscope more" (and you can look for them directly in the code, rather than just by blackbox testing). So based on evidence instead of conjecture, dominance in the market has little to do with how many vulnerablities are found in your code.

... facts are facts. ;)

FreeBSD:
FreeBSD, Stealth-Growth Open Source Project (Jun 2004)
"FreeBSD has dramatically increased its market penetration over the last year."
Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD (Jun 2004)
"[FreeBSD] has secured a strong foothold with the hosting community and continues to grow, gaining over a million hostnames and half a million active sites since July 2003."
What's New in the FreeBSD Network Stack (Sep 2004)
"FreeBSD can now route 1Mpps on a 2.8GHz Xeon whilst Linux can't do much more than 100kpps."

NetBSD:
NetBSD, for When Portability and Stability Matter (Oct 2004)
NetBSD sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (May 2004)
NetBSD again sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record (Sep 2004)

OpenBSD:
OpenBSD Widens Its Scope (Nov 2004)
Review: OpenBSD 3.6 shows steady improvement (Nov 2004)
OpenSSH (OpenBSD subproject) has become a de facto Internet standard.

*BSD in general:
Deep study: The world's safest computing environment (Nov 2004)
"The world's safest and most secure 24/7 online computing environment - operating system plus applications - is proving to be the Open Source platform of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and the Mac OS X based on Darwin."
BSD Success Stories (O'Reilly, 2004) (pdf) ~ from Onlamp BSD DevCenter
"The BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others - have earned a reputation for stability, security, performance, and ease of administration."
..and last but not least, we have the cutest mascot as well - undisputedly. ;)

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Being able to read *other people's* source code is a nice thing, not a 'fundamental freedom'.

The whole survey is skewed. Its only 3500 people and most of the distros only have the numbers they do because certain popular websites for < insert distro > had links on their front page telling people to go vote for their distro. With only 3500 votes, one website telling their visitors to go vote would have a significant impact. If you want a real survey of linux usage (although its more general, not just for the desktop) go to netcraft. In March or so they released a survey. Red Hat had 1.6 million sites running it as a server, Debian had around 800,000, Suse around 450,000. Fedora had the fastest growth rate by far and had around 200,000 servers. You can check the stats yourself here.
Regards,
Steve

Allowed HTML: ... <a> ...
Can anyone tell me how do I use that?
<a href="...">...</a> does not work.

The answer is yes:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=dwh-sc.ne csoft.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.isro. org

The answer is yes:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=dwh-sc.ne csoft.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.isro. org

http://www.hackiis6.com/ was running Microsoft-IIS on Windows 2000 when last queried at 2-May-2005 10:52:28 GMT

netcraft history: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:/ /www.hackiis6.com 63.88.172.208 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0

It's running IIS 5?

WTF?

Yes, the listing is nearly a month old - but why even put up a site called www.hackiis6.com if you're going to install 5?