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Netcraft: Red Hat Still Top Linux Server Distro

Posted by timothy on from the playing-with-numbers dept.

darthcamaro writes "Looks like Red Hat is still the #1 distro according to Netcraft stats cited by Internetnews.com. Gentoo is now the fastest growing, replaced Debian which was the fastest growing distro just six months ago...and as we all know, and as the article rightly points out, the stats aren't accurate cause most webserver admins disable version reporting...right? So if all version were known, what would be the #1 distro for hosting? Read the Netcraft stats (without the context that they're BS) here"

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  1. Re: Is this the same Netcraft by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    > *winky provided for the sardonically challenged

    I thought he(???) was provided for the heterosexually challenged.

    --
    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. Re:Come to Gentoo :) by ScribeOfTheNile · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >> 24 hours to install on a shiny new Pentium 4 is NOT progress.
    Sorry, but you're stupid. Gentoo is a source-based distro, designed to be compiled from scratch, naturally taking a decent amount of time. This wouldn't be progress if it was, say, a binary based distro, but it's not. You cannot bash distro X simply because you don't like the way it's intended to be. Gentoo is designed to be this way, and many of us (myself included) like it, compiling and all. If YOU don't like it, you're not being forced to use it.