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Linux Foundation's Desktop Linux Survey Results

Posted by Zonk on from the this-one-goes-out-to-all-the-penguins-out-there dept.

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."

4 of 172 comments (clear)

  1. "Family"? by Bo'Bob'O · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Family? I guess that make sense. Ubuntu of the Debian Order, Linux Class, UNIX Phylum. I guess that would make the Genus the particular type (server/home), and the species it's version number.

  2. Novell downturn? by brejc8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I keep reading how this MS/Novell agreement is gaining customers but here I can see that:
    in 2005 Novell/SUSE got 28%
    in 2006 Novell/SUSE got 16%
    in 2007 Novell/SUSE got 11.7%

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  3. Problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you fill out the survey, it asks you about anti-virus, and specifically porting bigname AVs to linux.

    A few questions I pose:
    1) Why do we want the bloaty, slow, pieces of crap that are windows AVs ported to linux?

    2) Why do we want to port these, encouraging turning a blind eye to security and letting the AV do the work(such as it is on windows)?
    3) Why not just improve support on say, ClamAV?

  4. Re:Proof enough by jlarocco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please stay with Gentoo I don't want users like you infecting the other distros.

    I think you've got the infection backwards. If you're ever having a problem on Linux, 99.999% of the time your best bet is to ask a Gentoo or Slackware user.

    Snicker at their elitism, but fact of the matter is your average Gentoo user probably knows 100x more about Linux than your average Ubuntu user.

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