of course if you add open SUSE and Enterprise SUSE together then we should be doing SUSE At the end of the day there are lies damn lies political promises. and statistics (of which 70% are made up on the spot) On a side note, USA today recently reported that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population. The whole point of linux is to make it what we the user want. Choice is good, Ubuntu looks like a good place to start, probably better than when we all pushing redhat. I would like to see more distros demo'ed and the goals of the distro explained. After all Linux really is the kernel, beyond that its the distro. be it focused on Games, or Media or Web design, or one ring to rule them all ... is there ever one type of PC user. OK I'll go back to my MAC now . and see what I can find out about the new mac-tel units, Since we had mac on linux, there is a growing interest in running windows/linux/mac not as dual boot, but as window on the one desktop. not emulation, but direct access to the hardware on the motherboard alongside the base os. Should be fun. in the meantime .. try and play nice kiddies. Later Gavin (gramps) in Ngaruawahia On 1/12/2005, at 2:05 PM, Craig Box wrote:
Please specifically refer to http://www.desktoplinux.com/files/article019/osdl-dtl-survey-12.jpg.
Well, you know what they say about statistics....
I was being a bit cheeky in this case - I remember a call going out on the Ubuntu forums to reply to the survey, so it probably has more than a slight slanting of the respondents.
I'm sure that you could find a survey out here to make any point. The Distrowatch HPD stats, http://distrowatch.com/ show a somewhat different distribution of actual users (not just those enterprises _considering_ using).
What, you mean the list that still puts Ubuntu at the top? :)
The point I was trying to make was perhaps a dig at the expense of whoever suggested we needed to "take the Ubuntu blinkers" off in the last survey. If someone comes and knows they want to install a different OS, and has a good reason, we aren't the type to say "no, that's wrong, you should run Ubuntu". However, if we're going to support it and the people don't know, it seems like a really good and justifiable choice.
Craig
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