CodingExperiments.com posted an interesting article by utilizing the Google Trends system to show the trends in the Linux ecosystem. While these trends don't mean "market share", they are interesting and pretty accurate in terms of what average users care about. According to it, "Ubuntu" might even overtake the word "linux" in Google's searches.
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Member since:2007-04-06
Well, hopefully, the law of large numbers would take that into account. Besides, comparing distro mindshare through Google trends isn't exactly an accurate methodology. It's just meant to be interesting. You will also note that few of the search terms are compared directly against each other; only their relative -changes-. That is, Ubuntu seems to be growing while distros seem to be shrinking.
Besides, a lot of the major distro names have something else associated with that term. 'Gentoo' is a penguin, 'Sabayon' a dessert, 'Suse' short for Susan, 'Red hat' can be not only a red hat but a club for middle aged women and a type of Buddhism, and so on.
Oh, this could be fun. We could make a game out of it! Serious points to anyone who might be able to think of something that 'Debian' also stands for!
Member since:2005-07-22
Debian (IMHO) stands for "Deviant".(Only Joking)
There is the Debian and thus by implication, the Ubuntu way of doing things and there are other ways.
The other ways in many cases are more logical and advanced (I'm not talking about user level stuff here btw). Try getting the Debian/Ubuntu crew to take these ideas on board is difficult or well nigh impossible.
I too get turned off by the plethora of "Isn't Installing Ubuntu Wonderful" articles. So what if the installer is easy to use. Installing the system is what 5% of what you do with a system.
If Ubuntu would change and conform to the LSB then I might give it a second chance.
My 4yr old Dell 8600 fails(H/W recognition) miserably with the latest Ubuntu LTS whereas even Debian(stable) finds all the hardware OOTB. So exactly what is so cool about this mess of Brown & Orange.
I've been a Linux user since Slackware 1.1 and its multitude of Floppies, and a Unix user since 1982.
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2007-09-03
Couldn't some of those searches of 'ubuntu' be people looking for information on the philosophy? Does the data from Google trends take that into account?