"LinuxDevices.com's survey results consistently show Debian to be the most popular distribution among device developers. For example, our 2007 survey indicated that Debian was used in device-related projects by 13 percent of the survey's 932 participants, roughly double the score of MontaVista, the most popular strictly-embedded distribution. In addition to Debian's 13 percent score, Ubuntu, which is based on Debian packages, jumped to 6 percent this year, its first year in our survey. In contrast, Red Hat, achieved a 5 percent score and Fedora came in at 6 percent, while SUSE scored just 2 percent. The complete results and analysis are here. Why do device developers prefer Debian?"
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I can only assume that it was the OP's intension to start yet-another-Debian-vs.-RedHat/SUSE/Mandriva/World flame war
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I'm not a Debian user, but if Debian is preferred by developers of embedded devices, I'm cool with that. I'm a CentOS fan who happens to be running an Ubuntu desktop. But it's all Linux, of course, and I firmly believe that a rising tide lifts all boats.
I ran across this fun little vignette the other day which is about users of web frameworks but is easily adaptable to fans of Linux distros:
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* Person 1: "What do you do for a living?"
* Person 2: "I work with computers."
* Person 1: "So do I! What do you do with computers?"
* Person 2: "I'm a Web developer."
* Person 1: "So am I! Design, client-side programming or server-side programming?"
* Person 2: "Server-side programming."
* Person 1: "Same here! Do you use dynamically typed languages or statically typed languages?"
* Person 2: "Dynamically typed languages."
* Person 1: "So do I! Do you use a Web framework, or do you roll things on your own?"
* Person 2: "I use a Web framework."
* Person 1: "So do I! Django or Rails?"
* Person 2: "Django."
* Person 1: "Die, heretic scum!"
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I believe that its roots can be traced back to this piece:
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The heretic
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well, are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are your Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, Me too! Are your Episcopalian or Baptist? He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are your Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord? He said, Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are your Original Baptist Church of God or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum!" and pushed him off.
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Odd how we can be so funny and so sad at the same time. ;-)
Edited 2007-05-01 04:48
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Yet another useless statistics.
First, they are not talking about "device developers" - they are talking about embedded platforms *... and if the OP doesn't know the difference between the two, he shouldn't be posting in OS news.
Out of 932 participants, ~150 were using boot-strapped distros (kernel.org?) ~130 were using Debian, 110 were using RedHat/Fedora... with other embedded-only distros eating ~300 others.
Considering the survey relatively small size, huge market fragmentation (with a large number of embedded only players) and the market type (which is unknown to most users), I doubt that this survey means anything to most OSNew users.
Now, given the mis-leading title (“device developers”) and the article extract itself, I can only assume that it was the OP's intension to start yet-another-Debian-vs.-RedHat/SUSE/Mandriva/World flame war and as such:
Move along folks, nothing to see here.
- Gilboa
Hence the title "What sources of Linux were/will be in your (company's) embedded designs?"