Which Linux distribution is the most popular? For many players in the open source realm, that answer depends on which part of the globe is counting, and how. By most accounts and research metrics, Red Hat (Quote, Chart) is the current market leader in distributions. IDC, for example, estimates that Red Hat’s distributions cover over 60 percent of the Linux server market.
Who’s The Fastest Growing Linux Distro?
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Title justs sounds wrong!
Did I get that right? 2.6 as one of the kernels in Sarge?
No mention of any of Asia’s native distro’s like RedFlag. Odd.
RedHat/Derivates = Business linux
Debian/Derivates = Userhome Linux
“RedHat/Derivates = Business linux
Debian/Derivates = Userhome Linux”
Not exactly. Redhat has take a hit in small business servers after the move to Fedora. Most of that marketshare went to Debian. It’s too soon to tell if that will be a long term trend or not.
Also Xandros is making inroads into corporate markets and they are debian based.
I just recently downgraded from sid to sarge on my laptop, and got a 2.6(.1?) kernel installed.
Because the Mandrake Linux is on improving the people…
I know probably quite a few linux users on the net and real life, None of them use Debian, many have used it at one point but home use to me seems to be Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSe, & gentoo. Never heard of anyone using xandros or lindows. Knoppix is the only exception to the rule, and a pretty big one. They do quite well with the newbies I meet.
As for Debian taking over Red Hat customers some more religeous users have switched but don’t forget Red Hat had
a big jump in subscription users and its first profit. I wouldnt say they are taking much of a hit, plus i’ve seen alot of debain/gentoo users query about fedora lately.
Distro wars aside they are all good in my opinion, except one which I wont say =)
Do the redhat countings on netcraft include fedora?
I would be interested in knowing if small buisnesses have switched to fedora. (If the admin can handle upgrades and its not mission critical, why not?)
I am not 100% sure but I would say yes, Fedora would show up as the same thing to Netcraft by thier fingerprinting techniques. The only exception would be a default apache that still has the sample webpage saying its Fedora.
I doubt many will be using Fedora on the main servers but I do know a few are doing it, mostly to test out what direction they are going to go.
I’d have no problem using it for my website especially with exec-shield makes me feel warm and fuzzy but If my site was doing Credit Card transactions or handling mission critical stuff id avoid it like the plague just because there is a ‘chance’ bad things can happen.
I’d say Gentoo is the fastest growing home user distro out there. I can see why; great package maintaners and emerge is pretty cool. I’d argue that there are too many zealots, but hey, I won’t hold that against Gentoo.
While I always liked using Debian on the desktop and my own home servers, I never really appreciated how useful it’s stable branch is until I started maintaining multiple commercial servers. It “just works” as the phrase goes. Security problem in ssh or apache? apt-get update/upgrade. Customer wants php-snmp modules? apt-get install php-snmp. I get to sleep at night knowing the upgrade I did across 15 servers isn’t going to cause some issue that will have angry customers ringing me at three in the morning because their buy forms don’t work.
While I’m sure redhat has its place (not for me personally, but then, hey, it’s Linux, you can do whatever you want.
, I’m still suprised at the number of places that use it on servers when their support is their own onsite tech support staff (ie, no support contract with Redhat.Corp).
but probably very few of us know what the fastest growing linux distro is at the moment. It’s a tiny distro. If someone has just finished a one-man distro and given a copy to two mates, that’s 200% growth. In a day. Now ~that’s~ speed only Redhat can only dream of…..
I am not 100% sure but I would say yes, Fedora would show up as the same thing to Netcraft by thier fingerprinting techniques. The only exception would be a default apache that still has the sample webpage saying its Fedora.
I doubt many will be using Fedora on the main servers but I do know a few are doing it, mostly to test out what direction they are going to go.
I’d have no problem using it for my website especially with exec-shield makes me feel warm and fuzzy but If my site was doing Credit Card transactions or I am not 100% sure but I would say yes, Fedora would show up as the same thing to Netcraft by thier fingerprinting techniques. The only exception would be a default apache that still has the sample webpage saying its Fedora.
I doubt many will be using Fedora on the main servers but I do know a few are doing it, mostly to test out what direction they are going to go.
I’d have no problem using it for my website especially with exec-shield makes me feel warm and fuzzy but If my site was doing Credit Card transactions or handling mission critical stuff id avoid it like the plague just because there is a ‘chance’ bad things can happen.handling mission critical stuff id avoid it like the plague just because there is a ‘chance’ bad things can happen.
I know i’m using it on my website and am pritty please with it ^-^
To find out what distros are growing in popularity, you could also just take a look at the page hit rankings of Distrowatch:
http://www.distrowatch.com/ , e.g. the stats from last 3 months. Well, those stats cannot be taken dead seriously, but at least they give some real numbers instead of pure speculation based on marketing efforts of some distros etc.
As to home users, and also according to those Distrowatch statistics, I’d say that recently the fastest growing new home user distro has quite probably been Mepis, a Debian-based distro made the way that a Debian-based distro for home users should be made.
Note that the number of servers added during the time period in question is 219519 for RedHat vs. 144240 for all of the other distributions COMBINED.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/01/28/debian_fastest_growing…
Also note that Debian, SUSE and RedHat each added more servers to their ranks than Gentoo and Mandrake each have in total. Cobalt has the second most servers but lost 4049.
Good one!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Mandrake based, but as of PCLinuxOS Preview 5, they are using synaptic and apt-get. Installed is Flash, Shockwave, Realplayer 3D drivers (but the installed ATI driver is borked in preview 5 and you have to fix it), Mandrake’s Control Center, and KDE Mission Control. And these are all Textar’s Mandrake RPM’s, so the quality of them are high. It’s a live single disk distro with USBkey support and harddrive install scripts.
Put simply, it’s the best desttop live cd there is. It’s attractive also, I like his ‘details’, non comercial and pleasing to the eye.
I would like other developers to take a look at this one and lend support. It’s really well done (aside from the beta problems, but once it’s done, holy dogs it will be good!) I feel this is one of the best distros out there, and in the short time it’s been around, it’s gone from bottom of the list at Distrowatch to #8.
Debian is the way of the future. Its development parallels that of Linux–stable, testing, and experimental. It’s non-profit, it’s safe and it will be around even after Linux goes away.
debian is the fastest growing for web servers, says netcraft
As long as it is impossible to have reliable figures of linux usage outside of web servers, it will always be possible to mis-represent the system as irrelevant.
has at least one version of Knoppix in their drawer — so Knoppix is the widest pread one.
No mention of slack eh?? I think slack probably has a big user base as well… But.. You have to have a brain to use it though… 🙂