The Great Linux World Map

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Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 13, 2011 @03:43AM from the continental-drift dept.

N1ckR writes "Mrk has posted a fun Linux world map including 'The Suse Lake,' 'Noob Desert' and the 'Forbidden Land of Gentoo.' He said, 'The Great Linux World Map is a fun endeavor trying to portray the world of the Linux desktop as a sort of a Typus Orbis Terrarum. The map is no way representative in terms of actual market share usage or popularity. It's just a wild envisioning of how I see things, more or less.'"

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Don’t get it by Anrego · 2011-05-13 03:43 · Score: 4, Insightful

All they did is give geographic-ish names to the various distros and randomly place them on a world map. Very little about the placement, and really not much about the names, is specific to the distros, and there are no distro specific features added and as is said in the summary this isn’t showing popularity or any other statistic. Ok, so Fedora is touching Red Hat,. the noobs are in ubuntu.. haha?
Am I just being thick and missing the point/humour here, or is this really just a dud?
1. Re:Don’t get it by 0racle · 2011-05-13 03:47 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  I think it's a dud to generate traffic. By the summary itself, it's not based on anything but wild imagination.
  
  Someone is trying to be xkcd.
  
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2. Re:Don’t get it by Anonymous Coward · 2011-05-13 04:00 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Someone is trying to be xkcd.
  Exactly. But Randall at least uses data to backup his maps (to decide their relative size and position). These just seem randomly placed.
3. Re:Don’t get it by Hatta · 2011-05-13 04:24 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah, it's not that funny. They didn't even map an ARCHipelago.
  
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!XKCD by numb7rs · 2011-05-13 03:57 · Score: 5, Funny

It's like XKCD, but without the funny.
1. Re:!XKCD by Elbereth · 2011-05-13 04:05 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  XKCD isn't funny, either.
  References to pop culture don't make you funny. Being funny makes you funny.
2. Re:!XKCD by partyguerrilla · 2011-05-13 04:29 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  There are two types of people in the world: 1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
xkcd knockoff? by compulord155 · 2011-05-13 04:03 · Score: 3, Insightful

Anyone else notice that it looks strikingly like xkcd maps from the past? Of course with much less wit, organization and forethought.