[plug] Those Debianistas are going to crow ...

Tue Mar 21 10:44:06 WST 2006

The funniest part about this is no-one really knows how many of which
flavour of Linux 
distribution actually exist... so the figures are undoubtedly bogus.

Server farms are one indication, but server farms are not a huge
indication of usefulness
of a distribution anyway... a really poor indicator.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Richard Meyer
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 09:42 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Those Debianistas are going to crow ...

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 13:36 +0000, simon wrote:
> Richard Meyer (meyerri at westnet.com.au) wrote:
> >
> > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/56196/index.html
> >
> > Quote:
> > > Interestingly, Debian accounted for 44.6% of the Linux systems 
> > > deployed while SUSE had 11.4% of the systems deployed. Fedora and 
> > > Red Hat legacy distributions accounted for 9.2%. The later
surprised me.
> 
> There are 4 types of liars: liars, damn liars, statisticians, and
Excel users.

.. salesmen, politicians, statesmen, reporters ....
> 
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