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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."
I really should check our Gentoo, it might just work on my crappy 5 year old Wintel machine...
I wouldn't recommend it unless you don't want to actually work on that box.
I mean, sure you could save on the compile times (good luck compiling KDE/gnome, Mozilla and Open Office on a "crappy 5 year old Wintel machine") by getting binaries, but then, why not just use Slackware or Debian...
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
Selling 1 license last week and 2 licenses this week would be a 100% increase. Selling 0 licenses last week and 1 license this week is an infinite percentage increase. I hope you pay somebody else to compute your taxes...
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
The article says it has had the slowest growth rate, not that it is shrinking.
"RedHat has a far greater number of installations at 1.5 million, but a slower growth rate in the six-month span at 17.8 percent; "
It is still growing, just not as fast as the other distros.
I realize you're trolling/joking, but Debian supports new hardware just fine. I installed it on my dual Athlon 2200+ w/ SB Audigy and Radeon 9700PRO a year ago, and it worked fine and still does. Myths about Debian's hardware support mostly seem to come from its lack of an autodetecting installer, although Knoppix and debian-installer are fixing that.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
However the parent was talking about how Red Hat cut off half there customer because they stop producing a free downloadable and boxed set version of their operating system.(Which really was just draining money doing so, because the number buying it didn't outweigh the money involved in making it). Once they cut the dead weight, Red Hat is now actually turning a profit, and their stock has risen over 100% since. (Though that could just be do to them filing a lawsuit against SCO).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35588.html But the real security problem in Xandros is precisely the Windows affliction: too many networking services are enabled by default.
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