Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 25th May 2003 08:29 UTC
It's been almost a year since our first Linux distro poll, so here is your... annual Linux poll. Click more and vote for your favorite distribution!
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>Fun to see how OSNews readers prefer developer disto's like Gentoo >and Debian while the most mentioned (as I see it) here on OSNews are >Mandrake, Red Hat, and SuSe. Just an observation...
Last year's poll revealed Red Hat as the leading distro, so we did reported on it more. Thing is, distros like Debian and Gentoo have VERY FEW news items to offer, while commercial companies they make press releases to attract attention and let us know in time of things. We just report on whatever is out there.
Personally, I am not convinced that Gentoo was able to lead this poll. I am looking to see if someone has tumpered with the poll.
>MODERATOR: Problem with poll
>Your poll has a fatal flaw - you select an option by default.
No, it is not fatal at all. I put Slackware up there, as first choice, because I knew people were going to whine about this. I can't do anything about the selected option, I did not write this poll engine, we outsource it (how many times should I write this???). This is why, in order to not have people again say "ah, the X distro is No1 because it was preselected and people just clicked on it", I just put there a distro that is NOT as popular as the others. This way, you don't get to whine because the first pre-selected distro wouldn't be ranking first, but you still did whine.
>was this pole up for 4 hours or something?
The poll is still open. It seems that someone with your IP address voted before you did.