Most popular distros from 2002 onwards

GarethDW · 25 May 2008 at 21:38

Just StumbledUpon this page which shows the popularity of distros since 2002, and thought it was interesting - especially to see how Mandrake has slipped and how Ubuntu has dominated for so long already.

Also, the figures for all the distros seem to jump quite massively around '04, but I can't think what event or big release would explain that.

http://www.junauza.com/2008/04/distro-rankings-and-popularity-ratings.html

Trunks9486 · 25 May 2008 at 21:50

Ubuntu is so popular because it is easy to get into...

And most importanly, the support in their forums from the users there is amazing. Its probably one of the best, if not the best, support communities.

eXor · 25 May 2008 at 22:00

When they compile the 2008 list, Debian will be tenth.

Una · 25 May 2008 at 22:01

Shuttleworth and canonicals influence on ubuntu made linux actually accessible for the general public. Its quite surprising how far linux has come actually in the last few years.

NicNac · 25 May 2008 at 22:35

Una said:
Shuttleworth and canonicals influence on ubuntu made linux actually accessible for the general public. Its quite surprising how far linux has come actually in the last few years.

I agee when my desktop got screwed up I just installed ubuntu since then I've dabbled in a few different distros. The moral of the story here is the ubuntu as evil as some people seem to think it is enables people to get into linux. That page made for good reading

craptakular · 25 May 2008 at 23:49

I have used ubuntu for ages and finally on 8.04 I have got everything working I wanted.

mediatomb > ps3, AWN, samba and some other stuff.

SuSe is what I started on but the ubuntu forums swung it for me, theres so much help on there with loads of user guides for everything I would ever need!

marscay · 26 May 2008 at 17:24

funny to see Gentoo slowly losing favour, it was the l33t distro a few yrs back....i gave many hours of my time to it.

no surprise to see Arch not make the list even though it's the best bleeding edge desktop distro around

thegoonden · 27 May 2008 at 11:37

Gentoo is still the only distro that installed a fully functional mplayer without fighting, arguing or cheating. I therefor love it.
Ubuntu was useless, it came with some no-name no-hope media player and the how-to for installing mplayer and codecs had commands that used URL's that were "file not found", 2 days after the how-to was posted.
Haven't booted it since.
No mplayer=no use.

I'll be staying with gentoo then, as nothing bugs me more than people posting bogus how-to's and the mods leaving them there.