Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 22nd Nov 2004 20:12 UTC
I admit that I'm a geek. I use Linux. I use Solaris. I use FreeBSD. At times, I use Windows. And without a doubt, I download and try almost every Linux distribution when they come out. Over the last few years, I've tried all of the RedHat/Fedora releases, 2 different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on.
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according to distro watch, mandrake is the most downloaded distro, the most polished one
Like the Distrowatch maintainer has often said the DW page hit meter cannot be taken too seriously. For sure it doesn't tell anything about downloads of distros. It only tells how many visitors each distro specific DW subpage has got within a certain time frame.
Mandrake is one of the biggest and best known distros around the world, especially known for its newbie friendliness for a long time, so it's natural that especially many people new to Linux may check the Mandrake pages there.
Besides, Something called Linux XP used to be one of the "top" distros in the DistroWatch Page Hit Count too. It was obviously just that magical two letter combination "XP" that brought enough clicks for that particular page, although almost nobody seemed to have even tried that distro...