Call to vote

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/25/06, Patrice VETSEL <vetsel.patrice at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Which Linux Distro Are You Running in 2006
>
> http://linux.about.com/library/bl/dist/bldist_poll.htm

A couple of observation based on this very unscientific vote:

*) a lot more vote this time (17800 and counting) compared to the vote
in 2002 (1139).   I'm guessing a mix of more linux users this time
around, and more users on the internet in general.  That or there is a
vote-stacking movement going on that is inflating the number of votes
:)

*) Mandriva/Mandrake is really dropping.  In that vote it went down
from 41% in 2002 to 3% in 2006.  Then I visited distrowatch for the
time in ages and in the distro stats page
(http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity) Suse is now a
solid 2nd behind Ubuntu, with Mandriva between 3rd and 6th and
dropping.   Last time I visited that page (early in 2005)
Mandrake/Mandriva was the one at the top or in 2nd position in these
various category.

Ah...archive.org has the distrowatch archive from February 2005
proving that last point:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050207000759/http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity


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Daniel Robitaille