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Big Gains for Fedora in Web Hosting

Posted by timothy on from the it's-the-eye-shade-power dept.

1sockchuck writes "Fedora is the fastest-growing Linux distribution for web sites, according to new data from Netcraft on the popularity of Linux distros. Red Hat continues to be the most widely-used distro, running twice as many sites as Debian. 'Red Hat seems to have the best of both worlds at the moment: market-leading status for Red Hat Linux, plus the fastest-growing community distribution in Fedora,' the analysis notes."

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  1. More than just the obvious by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Besides Red Hat Linux starting to lose market share to Fedora (more of a change of name than a loss), it looks like Fedora is the distro of choice for new web servers, closely followed by Debian. This doesn't seem like a big surprise to me, but it's always good to see numbers. Would be more interesting to see this in context of all OSes however.

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  2. This just in: people are unskilled and lazy by Crimsane · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Fedora is the fastest growing distro because its converting people that wouldn't normally run a linux server with its ease of setup and install. When these people running fedora servers get more experiance with linux, they will learn there are much better distro's to run a server on then fedora.