[CLUE-Talk] RH or Deb ?

[Jeffery Cann]

On Monday 09 December 2002 05:48 am, Marcin wrote:
> I've got a little question to US CLUE members:
> which linux RedHat or Debian GNU/Linux is most popular in the USA and
> why?

Statistics on the popularity of distributions are hard to come by and vary 
widely by who asks and for what reason.

This is from the Linux counter, which is not only USA.  However 27% of the 
machines registered are from the USA. 
http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.html
	1. Red Hat  29%
	2. Mandrake 18%
	3. Debian  14%
	4. Suse 11%

"What's your favorite Linux distro?"  PCMag.com (USA), October 8, 2001
http://www.pcmag.com/poll_archive/0,3044,p%253D1035%2526bn%253D1,00.asp
     1. Mandrake: 43.78%
     2. Redhat: 27.9%
     3. Suse: 15.41%
     4. Libranet: 1.42%
     5. Other: 11.49%

  "Best distribution for beginners," Linux.com (USA), September 24, 2001
http://www.linux.com/polls/index.phtml?pid=128

     1. Mandrake - 36.7%
     2. Redhat - 33.5%
     3. Suse -13.5%
     4. Slackware - 5.6%
     5. Debian - 4.6%
     6. Caldera - 3.7%


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