Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results

DeviceGuru writes "While the Linux Foundation's third annual desktop Linux survey doesn't officially end until November 30th, the number of daily respondents have shrunk to a trickle and the Foundation is working on analyzing the results. They now have up an early look at the raw data. For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey compared to fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey. Not surprisingly, the Ubuntu family of Linuxes is the most popular among organizations, at 54.1 percent. This was followed by the Red Hat family — RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Fedora/CentOS) — with 50.2 percent. The Novell SUSE group — SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) and openSUSE — came in third, with 35.2 percent."

Comments

Re:No Debian?

[cyphercell]

[sarcasm]It's okay, Debian's in the Ubuntu family of Linuxes [/sarcasm]

Year of the Linux desktop

[cstdenis]

It's official, 2008 will be the year of the Linux desktop.

Re:percent? 54.1 + 50.2 + 35.2

[malraid]

This time twice as many people filled the survey, so instead of 100% like last time, this one goes up to 200%!!!

Re:%139.5 ... you're counting wrong

[turbidostato]

" I have boxen that run all three."

You maybe have three Linux boxen but by the very use of the word "boxen" you already showed you own no common sense so your opinion is moot and ignored.

PCLinuxOS is first at distrowatch

[bunbuntheminilop]

but gets only 5.4% in this survey. I don't understand what's going on.

Not just that..

[schon]

But does anyone else here see the irony of a Linux survey being hosted on an IIS server?

Re:Proof enough

[jimicus]

Absolutely correct.

After all, there's nothing like a distribution which occasionally breaks itself to teach you all about troubleshooting Linux.