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."

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URL should be www.linux-foundation.org

[chrb]

www.linuxfoundation.org appears to be some kind of domain search squatter.

Bad Link in Orignal Post.

[Confessed Geek]

Update the link in the original front page post.

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/ is NOT http://www.linux-foundation.org/

The first is just a traffic collector page.

The Linux Foundation mentioned in the story is at
http://www.linux-foundation.org/

Thats where you will find the article/survey.

Re:Bad Link in Orignal Post.

[Anonymous Coward]

https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/2007ClientSurvey link to the survey?

Links and respondents

[chrb]

Fill in the survey.

Current results

The results say the current number of respondents is 10941 (and counting). Where did the figure of 20,000 come from?

Re:No Debian?

[Firefalcon]

From the linked article:

"Debian (22.2 percent)"

So looking good... :-)

Re:%139.5

[J0nne]

If you'd RTFA, you'd have read that you could pick multiple distro's. The question was 'which Linux distributions do you run in your organisation', and apparently lots of organisations run several different distro's, instead of standardising on one.

Re:"Family"?

[aztracker1]

Since Linux programs can "mate" for all intents and purposes, wouldn't Linux probably be the Species... with Breed being Debian, and Variety being Ubuntu... the server/client would be a characteristic traits, like blue vs green eyes etc...

Re:Proof enough

[mechsoph]

Also, the fact that you have to rebuild every update from scratch is a real pain on Gentoo, despite it being great for a home user, having 1-2 hours of 100% CPU usage in a business means that 1-2 hours employees can't work.

An institutional Gentoo installation would probably have one or two compile/test machines to produce packages, then just install the binary packages on all the production machines. At least that's how Purdue's CS department seems to do it.

What's with linuxfoundation.org?

[_Hellfire_]

linuxfoundation.org appears to be a domain squatter site.

Whois shows:
Last Updated On:26-Oct-2007 19:57:38 UTC

Which is not the same day and month as the creation date, so I'm suspecting either someone has taken this domain over or it wasn't legit in the first place (I don't know as I don't think I've ever been there). Maybe check our links before we post them to the front page on ./? Hits on these types of sites just encourage domain squatting.

Re:You're right.

[monk.e.boy]

I guess I'll get modded down, but in my last job we were forced to program for Windows because that's what everyone uses.

But we move from C++ to C# and suddenly 95% of our code was cross platform. I think you'll find that the more companies that shift to C#, the more software will start appearing on Linux.

Mono is a good thing. OK you may hate if from a 'freedom' point of view, but it sure enabled my program with freedom to move to Linux...