Linux is on the rise, and RED HAT is not he # 1 distro anymore.

[Ulfwald]

May 22, 2001 - New US Linux market figures - LinuxGram has released the retail market shares for the USA during the first 2001 Quarter (Source: LinuxGram Newsletter/PC Data). Guess who is first?

Mandrake - 33.8%

Redhat - 30.7%

Suse - 23.8%

FreeBSD - 5.6%

Caldera - 2.5%

Corel - 2.3%

Turbolinux - 1.2%


News article

 

[GoldenBear]

I didn't realize FreeBSD was a Linux distro.

 

[RGN]

<< I didn't realize FreeBSD was a Linux distro. >>



ROFl



I use Mandrake... It actually works - not like RedHat 7.0 ...

 

[Fuzzmuncher]

What's up with the three cops?

donut shop?:disgust:

 

[Angrymarshmello]

LOL @ donut shop - that was a good one

Red Hat has become too commercialized....it's a sh1tty dist. for the power Linux user....

 

[RGN]

Yeah, try the Chocolate ones.

 

[nd]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but all the article says is that Mandrake was #1 for one month for retail sales. Big deal. Mandrake is still relatively small in userbase compared to Red Hat.

 

[Ulfwald]

Yeah, it is a donut shop.

Hey, just because it was only #1 for this month does not mean that it casn't out pace Red Hat.

 

[nd]

It doesn't mean it has though either. Retail sales are virtually meaningless for determining Linux usage. It's distributed in way too many ways to keep track of.

 

[GT1999]

I still prefer Slackware over any of those. I have yet to try Red Hat but I completely hated Mandrake.

FreeBSD is nice, but as another person stated it's almost entirely a server OS, unlike running something like Linux where you can run X and run linux binaries without emulation.

 

[Rakkis]

another vote for slackware here. i've tried red hat and it just feels like it was made to cater to windows users. not that there isn't a market for that... but i want a *real* distribution

 

[RossMAN]

What's up with the three cops?

donut shop?

ROTFLMAO good one.

 

[Elledan]

I've the feeling that SuSe Linux is becoming more and more popular, and I think I know why, for it's the only Linux distro I use after having tried a few.

 

[Ameesh]

posers

 

[Ameesh]

<< I didn't realize FreeBSD was a Linux distro. >>



HAHAHAHA i love linux people

 

[SendTrash]

go Mandrake!

 

[nd]

<< posers >>

Real mature. You don't seem to be the stupid one at all here.