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What's The Fastest Growing Linux Distro?
darthcamaro writes "What's the fastest growing Linux distro? This really solid article on InternetNews.com contains interviews with the Debian Project leader, the founder of Mandrake, SuSe, Red Hat and TurboLinux to get their take on who's the biggest and who's the baddest on the distro block.
Also includes some interesting insight into the next round of releases."
It's SCO Linux
...or the fastest growing one would be the one that went from 1 to 5 users last week ;)
Kjella
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Gentoo would be rated higher, but they're still waiting for the results to compile.
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SCO. They sold one license last week. Up 100% from the week before.
There are a huge number of yeast infections in this county. Probably because we're downriver from the bread factory.
I see that Redhat has been in the pool......
My debian distro grows every day. not sure how fast though.
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
30 new packages installed, none removed and 2 held back.
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"What's the fastest growing Linux distro? This really solid article on InternetNews.com contains interviews with the Debian Project leader, the founder of Mandrake, SuSe, Red Hat and TurboLinux to get their take on who's the biggest and who's the baddest on the distro block."
Debian Project Leader: "The faster growing Linux distro is Debian."
Mandrake Founder: "No, its Mandrake."
SuSe Founder: "Guess again, it's SuSe!"
Red Hat: "We feel the faster growing distro is Red Hat."
TurboLinux: "Our title says it all - we are the faster growing distro!"
I'm not a journalist, but I play one on slashdot
Has only been in distribution for a couple of days now and it's doing pretty well. I'd say it will surpass lunix by the end of the year.
Of course an article/posting on debianhelp.org is going to say that its the fastest growing distro. Relying on that information is like relying on the Microsoft TCO numbers from an "independant" research company.
Come on its gotta be Fedora, I remember just a few versions ago it all fit on 1 CD, but this weekend I had to download 4 DAMN discs to make the new version run.
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Redhat vs Debian: RedHat wins! ;p
Redhat vs Slackware: RedHat wins!
Redhat vs Gentoo: Redhat wins!
Open Source vs Closed Source: Open Source wins!
Actually the most installed distro HAS to be Knoppix. I "install" it every time I reboot! (I have a laptop plugged into an outlet across the room and my 3yr old likes to kick the power out every other day). I alone am probably responsible for half the knoppix installations if such things could be tracked.
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"And BSD is not dying!!"
Of course it isn't, it's already dead.
But for certain, the slowest growing Linux distro is the SCO "All your code base are belong to us!" Linux.
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...all other distros are for wussies
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"I'd never want to join a club that would have me as a member" - G. Marx
2 months ago, no one was using my distro.
1 month ago, I created a distro, which was remarkably similar to Red Hat, but with a few extra configuration files specific to our computer lab. My distro had one user -- me.
This month, I installed my distro on 10 other machines in the lab. Yes, that's right -- in one month, my distro's userbase increased from 1 to 11, or an increase of 1000% That's an annualized growth rate of 10^12, or over ONE TRILLION PERCENT!
So, please either acknowledge that (1) my distro is the fastest growing, or (2) "fastest growing" statistics are really dumb.
That's not fast! I recently packaged my own LFS distro and installed it on my own computer. Guess what, I went from 0 to 1 users. Beat that for growth!