
According to
Google Trends, but also according to Distrowatch, our own statistics here at OSNews and overall sense of the industry during 2006, Ubuntu has a big leap in
mind share ahead of its competition (please note that we don't dare to say "market share", although we are pretty confident that it's the most used Linux desktop out there today). The second Fedora has a very small edge ahead of SuSe (while in US is a clear second), while Debian is following fourth. Mandrake+Mandriva (add both names on Google Trends and then sum the results) is clearly way below the previous four distros, but a clear 5th nonetheless. Last year Ubuntu was only a bit ahead of the other distros worldwide, but 2006 seems to have skyrocketed the distribution in the people's minds and computers.
Member since:
2006-06-01
Uh...you *do* realize that Nvidia/Ati drivers are *not* included when you install Windows either, right?
Drivers for my ATI video card were installed.
I installed Vista RC2 on my PC with an ATI Radeon 1300 Pro.
The OS install installed ATI Driver 7.14.10.830 dated Aug 21 2006.