Se ha producido durante estos últimos 30 dias un vuelco en la primera posición que ahora ocupa OpenSuse, posiblemente influido por la reciente aparación de su versión 11. Otra distribución que escala puestos es Debian que ha aumentado considerablemente sus cifras.

He aquí los datos de Mayo

y los de Abril

Mas información:

Distribuciones Linux mas usadas Mayo

Distribuciones Linux mas usadas Abril

Distribuciones Linux mas usadas en marzo

Distribuciones mas usadas en febrero

Not a bad effort when you consider that release 1 was only out last month...as we get more polish around this great operating system you'll start to see us up there with Ubuntu, OpenSuse and Fedora :)

Original results found here: http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=4

De este ránking (Que son 100 puestos pero yo solo puse 15 ) primero está OpenSuse, último de los 15 Tynime Linux y en el puesto 100, aquélla distro que quedó ahí abajo :P es Slitaz.

Ha bajado el número de usuarios totales pero se mantiene en primer lugar Ubuntu.

Podemos comparar los datos del mes de Mayo con los del mes de Abril:

Mas información:

Distribuciones Linux mas usadas Abril

Distribuciones Linux mas usadas en marzo

Distribuciones mas usadas en febrero

Плюсы:

• Чертовски маленький размер - 25 мб.
• Безусловно, о полной функциональности речь не идёт, но для 25 мб в нём довольно много программ. Достигается это при помощи lzma.
• Поскольку помещается полностью в оперативной памяти, работает довольно быстро.
• Больше всего поразило наличие композита - можно включить "гламурную" отрисовку меню и тени. Это заработало даже на VirtualBox.

Минусы:

• Французский язык по умолчанию. Меняется на английский при загрузке. Естественно, русского языка нету.
• На момент публикации официальный сайт был недоступен.

Ссылки:
SliTaz GNU/Linux – самый маленький декстоп дистрибутив из когда-либо созданных
Первый взгляд на SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0, самый маленький десктоп-дистрибутив на Земле
Зеркало с SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0

P.S. Была у меня flash-карта на 32 мб без дела... Теперь на ней SliTaz.

U/Linux - ещё один LiveCD/LiveUSB микро-дистрибутив. Как написано в README, цель проекта - создание дистрибутива, который работает полностью в оперативной памяти.

Плюсы:

• Чертовски маленький размер - 25 мб.
• Безусловно, о полной функциональности речь не идёт, но для 25 мб в нём довольно много программ. Достигается это при помощи lzma.
• Поскольку помещается полностью в оперативной памяти, работает довольно быстро.
• Больше всего поразило наличие композита - можно включить "гламурную" отрисовку меню и тени. Это заработало даже на VirtualBox.

Минусы:

• Французский язык по умолчанию. Меняется на английский при загрузке. Естественно, русского языка нету.
• На момент публикации официальный сайт был недоступен.

Ссылки:
SliTaz GNU/Linux – самый маленький декстоп дистрибутив из когда-либо созданных
Первый взгляд на SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0, самый маленький десктоп-дистрибутив на Земле
Зеркало с SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0

P.S. Была у меня flash-карта на 32 мб без дела... Теперь на ней SliTaz.

El equipo de openSUSE esta orgulloso de anunciar el release de openSuse 11.0 RC1. Las buenas noticias son que estamos por llegar a la version final pero no es tiempo de relax todavía. Nos estamos acercando, pero necesitamos poner todas las manos en el mazo para testear a fondo esta release candidate.

Las buenas noticias son que a demás hemos solucionado 578 bugs de Beta3 y en total unos 1,118 bugs.

Screenshots:

openSuse 11RC - inicio :)  KDE4

openSuse 11RC - Yast manejador de paquetes

openSuse 11RC - Gnome el menú y nuevo clock

Traducido por Flor , fuente original http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse

Basándome en Google Trends y DistroWatch, por ejemplo en el año 2006 se pudo ver gracias a estos dos medidores que Ubuntu tuvo un gran salto en "presencia" sobre sus competidores, dejando a Fedora en un muy lejano segundo lugar, con SuSE en un cercanísimo tercero y Debian en el cuarto.

En el año 2005 Ubuntu estaba entre SuSe y Fedora... pero es en el año 2006 el Boom Ubuntero con la salida de Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.

Se puede ver claramente una tendencia en las busquedas de Google de reemplazar la palabra "Linux" por la palabra "Ubuntu" , "Fedora"  o "SuSe" . Sino.. vean ustedes esta gráfica sobre la búsqueda de la palabra "Linux" como ha descrecido...

El boom de Ubuntu en el 2006 y la aparición de PCLinux OS

A fines del 2006 las distribuciones que se iban metiendo entre los grandes eran MEPIS y PCLInuxOS , esta última basada en la famosa Mandriva (q tengo q probar jijiji) . Vean las gráficas y como se han metido...

Bueno de esta grafica miren el final.. como sube el naranja y baja el verde q es Fedora y como Ubuntu se va por las nubes =)

PCLinux OS la nueva euforia (2007)

En el 2007 PCLinuxOS se transformó en la nueva revelación sacandole el primer puesto en popularidad en HPD de Distrowatch sobrepasando a Ubuntu en todos los sentidos. Esta gráfica es una muestra del crecimiento de PCLinuxOS en durante fines del 2006 y principios del 2007

Los números actuales del 2008

Con el Release de Ubuntu 8.04 Beta 3 volvió todo a la normalidad y Ubuntu escaló varios puestos... acompañado de que PCLinuxOS no saca una nueva version hace ya como 8 meses, Ubuntu se ha quedado con la punta nuevamente y se la ha asegurado bien.

Actualmente las distribuciones mas populares son:

1º Ubuntu  |  2º openSuSe |  3º Fedora   | 4º PCLinuxOS / Mandriva  | 5º Debian

Bueno espero que les haya gustado porque me ha tomado mucho tiempo hacer todo esto... =)  espero que me dejen muchos comentarios jijijij

besoss

Hasta Pronto

• 2008-05-08: Draco GNU/Linux 0.3.1 (see roadmap)
• 2008-05-12: Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R4 (see roadmap)
• 2008-05-13: Fedora 9 (see draft release schedule)
• 2008-05-13: Frugalware Linux 0.9pre1
• 2008-05-13: openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3
• 2008-05-18: Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0-TEST-2
• 2008-05-29: openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1
• 2008-05-XX: Granular Linux 1.0 RC
• 2008-05-XX: sidux 2008-02 (see roadmap)
• 2008-06-01: Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0-TEST-3
• 2008-06-08: Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 (see release schedule)
• 2008-06-12: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1
• 2008-06-19: openSUSE 11.0 (see roadmap)
• 2008-06-XX: Granular Linux RC2
• 2008-07-03: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 2
• 2008-07-08: Frugalware Linux 0.9pre2
• 2008-07-24: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3
• 2008-07-XX: Granular Linux 1.0 (see roadmap)
• 2008-07-XX: sidux 2008-03 (see roadmap)
• 2008-08-05: Frugalware Linux 0.9rc1
• 2008-08-08: Draco GNU/Linux 0.3.2 (see roadmap)
• 2008-08-14: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4
• 2008-08-19: Frugalware Linux 0.9rc2
• 2008-09-04: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 5
• 2008-09-09: Frugalware Linux 0.9 (see roadmap)
• 2008-09-18: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6
• 2008-09-XX: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (see release schedule)
• 2008-09-XX: Gentoo Linux 2008.1 (see release roadmap)
• 2008-10-02: Ubuntu 8.10 Beta
• 2008-10-23: Ubuntu 8.10 RC
• 2008-10-30: Ubuntu 8.10 (see release schedule)
• 2008-10-XX: sidux 2008-04 (see roadmap)
• 2009-04-06: Musix GNU+Linux 2.0 (see roadmap)
• 2009-04-09: Draco GNU/Linux 0.4.0 (see roadmap)

VIA: DistroWatch

Si lo comparamos con el del mes anterior

Aunque la mayoría aumentan el número de accesos, el orden varía de un mes a otro, aunque se mantiene en el primer lugar Ubuntu y entra entre los diez primeros Kubuntu y sale Sabayon.

]]> http://todoungeek.wordpress.com/?p=73 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:22:31 +0000 todoungeek http://todoungeek.wordpress.com/?p=73 A que no se imaginan que distro está primera?! :P Sí, adivinaron bien. Con la fiebre Ubuntu, ésta permanece en primer lugar (Y creo que va a seguir durante un tiempo).

De las 15 que se pueden ver, la última es Arch y de las 100 que están en la lista de distrowatch, la última es Shift Linux.

Como era de esperar Ubuntu está en primer lugar. Seguido por Mandriva en segundo lugar y OpenSuse en el tercero. (Con el próximo lanzamiento de Ubuntu 8.04 me imagino yo, que va a conservar el puesto.) De las 15 distribuciones, la última es Musix, que poco a poco gana popularidad.

La que quedo "por el piso" :P en el puesto Nº 100 fue Edubuntu.

Fuente | Distrowatch

El 22 de Enero las 10 distribuciones Linux mas usadas durante el último mes eran:

El 1 de Marzo las 10 distribuciones Linux mas usadas durante el último mes eran:

A día de Hoy 1 de Abril las 10 distribuciones mas usadas durante el último mes son:

Mas información
Distrowatch
Distribuciones mas usadas en febrero
Distribuciones Linux mas usadas

I like freedom.  I don't like being  told what to do.  When my operating system tells me that I have to press ok or cancel, I feel like I am being dictated too.  When my operating system tells me that I am not allowed to use a piece of software at all, my conviction grows.  When my operating cripples music, insists on an internet connection to prove that it is payed for and so on, I know I am  the victim of a fascist regime.

If an open sourse operating system tells me I have to ok or cancel and I don't like it I  can open the source code, find the module that asks the question and edit the code to give a third option, retry perhaps, or 'back' or whatever I like.   I can then recompile the module and My operating system now acts like I want.

This is the fundemental difference between being controled by the words (code) of others, and having control over the words that run the machines (computers) that you own.

Open source software is controled by you, it does not control you.  You are free to modify it, to hack it, to alter what it is and what it does, to pursue your own agenda, rather than be the victim of an agenda.

That is the first and foremost reason why I  prefer open source.  I  should say I have  never  actually done that, I mean  I have never  recompiled a single piece  of code, but that is not  the point, which brings me to  my second point.

I don't know who wrote the code for Microsoft MovieMaker, but I do  know who  wrote thecode for the Blender Sequence Editor. If I  want to I  can write him an email or perhaps chat to him on irc and ask  him  aabout his plans for future upgrades and alterations  to his code.  I cannot do that with commercial software.  But it goes further, if  the auther I know has no plans to add the feature I desire I can talk  to other developers who might  be more amenible,  I can advocate and organise for features and functionality to be written by others for my benifit and the  benifit of others.  This is why I don't need  to recompile code myself, others  will  do it  for me, this is  the second reason I  like open source.

The third reason I like open source is because it  is all (usually) free.  The GIMP  may not quite be  photoshop, and Blender might not match every feature of 3D Studio Max (although it does have many features that  3Ds dosen't  have),  and  Lumiera might still be just  a gleam  in the eyes  of the Cinerella  CV developers, but  by not buying Vista,  Adobe cs3, Office 2007,  3dsMax, Reason  and so on, I save myself thousands and thousands of dollars,  I also  avoid  any legal issues of  piracy and copyright violation, I don't pay a cent, and I dont commit a  crime.  Nice.

The forth reason I love open source  is that there are  so many programs out there  it makes  you head spin, browsing  through  getdeb, ohloh,  freashmeat, lxer, fsdaily,  planet  ubuntu, gnomefiles, and on and  on, scrolling through the  synaptic lists of availables, looking at linuxalt and osalt and  so on, checking out university department pages, over and over I come across nifty and  exciting pieces of software, often so obscure that if I wanted to buy a  comercial versionI  wouldn't know how to start lookingand iwould probably end  up paying thousands or finding  that the open  source  version is the only thing that  exists.

The fifth reason I like open source is that it is open.  Microsoft talk about how  this  or that  open  source project violates thier copyrights, but how  do we  know?  Half Microsoft's codebase  could be flagrently ripped off  from open  source for all we know, we can't  read the code, they are closed.  Closed source  means secrecy, obfuscation and lies,  it means  hiding what  you have done and trying to trick others  into thinking no  one else can do it.  Open source is open, it is  about truth and sharing  and  communication, itis as awsome as that dude.

The sixth reason I like open source is because it fucks with economics.   It  is  a massive movement, comprising millions upon millions of lines of code, milions upon millions man hours worked,  all for free, all being  used  by productive  and innovative persons  for free, having a huge and pretty much unmeasurable impact on the software  industry and by extension on other  industries, all based on a paradigm that  ignores money, ignores  profit, and behaves  in a way that to a classical economist seems completely irrational.  The idea that people might be willing to work, for free, just to  see something materialise that might benifit many fucks up the most fundemental axioms  of positive economics, and I  like that.

The seventh reason i like open source  is  because it  fosters in me a feeling of belonging to a community where  I have no walls, where my efforts might  one  day ged  me a  nod from Linus or  a check  from  Donald, where someone in Bolivia might use my image as thier desktop  wallpaper  or  someone in Romania might code up that idea I  had for a feature  in Blender or That I might get 'dug', and that it is all a seemless continuity, I am not a  consumer, I am not an employee, I ama  member  of a community I both use and create and collaborate with others through a  free and transparent exchange of information.

The eigth reason I like  open source  is the learning.  I remember when I did not know whata  gnome was, or  the difference between a kernel and kettle, or  how to configure a mixed  home  wireless network, and when the command line filled me with nothing  but dread, I remember when I wouldnt have known  where to  start in researching fixes  for my onboard soundcard, and so on and so on.  Open source  has transformed me from a child in a cage, being handed 'safe' toys by mother  microsoft, to being a young man on the open plains, hunting for his own food.

Number nine is Linux and Debian and Ubuntu and the GIMP and Blender and Gnome and GNU and Open Office and Gedit and Ardour and Inkscape and Scribus and  Emacs and Latex  and  Lyx  and Fontforge and Dia and  Firefox and Sunbird and  Vim and Bash and Python and Glade and Lumiera and Synaptic  and  every other great fantastic project out there that I use so seemlesly and effortlessly on my crappy old  thinkpads (oooohhh, lets not forget Atheros and the  HAL).

Number  ten is  BoingBoing and Creative Commons and Distrowatch and Google and wordpress and Slashdot and Deviantart and Wikipedia and Mozilla and on and on to all the places in the world where I can communicate for free and freely.

So there you haveit, thats why I like open source, some of the reasons  anyway,I amsure more will occur to me as I go about my day.

... like xkcd, dinosaur comix, moo cards, miro, mythtv, eeepc, neuros....

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080324#feature

Update 07.04.08 (zulu9):
Dank aomori und riepernet steht das Interview jetzt auch auf Deutsch zur Verfügung. :D

Hi,To avoid speculations about too much delay again (again, I apologize for
last year's unavailability), here is our TODO list between Cebit and the
Knoppix 5.3.1 release for which we have an internal release date of "not
later than 22.3.2008".

- Fix speech plugin for ADRIANE: DONE.

- Fix detection of vfat filesystem in /etc/fstab: DONE.

- Package updates in order to get orca to speak in german, too: DONE.

- Fix annoying "out of room for mmap" apt-get update error: DONE.

- Add missing firmware for ipw3x driver: DONE.

- Kernel update: In progress.

- Bugfixes and enhancements for screenreader in close cooperation
with sbl author Marco Skambraks: In progress.

- Fix knoppix-terminalserver: In progress

- Fix knoppix-installer and 0wn for new boot method: Almost done.

- Complete/fix a few ADRIANE components: Almost done.

- KDE4 bugs: WONTFIX. (Remaining an experimental boot option)

- CD version and dedicated ADRIANE boot CD (or a patch program that turns
the Knoppix CD into an ADRIANE CD with immediate speech support):
Not started yet, probably after release date of DVD.

With kind regards
-Klaus

Freuen wir uns also auf die Zeit nach Ostern. Die DVD ist zwar ein wenig groß mit ihren 4,2GB, aber eine CD-Version ist ja auch angekündigt. Gut Ding will Weile haben.

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1. Debian (0+ horas)
2. Fedora (8+ horas)
3. Slackware (12+ horas)
4. Mandriva (19+ horas)
5. Frugalware (21+ horas)
6. OpenSUSE (23+ horas)
7. rPath (26+ horas)
8. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (27+ horas)
9. Ubuntu (27+ horas)
10. CentOS (37+ horas)

Sorprendente...

• Fuente: VivaLinux.

In seven words, that pretty much wraps up the "Eight Distros a Week" series, named after (of course) the Beatles song "Eight Days a Week."

I have used more than eight distros -- AntiX, Debian, Fedora, Fluxbuntu, gNewSense, Linux Mint, Wolvix and Xubuntu -- but these eight are the ones that I use most, talk about most and would recommend to those looking for a distro.

I do sometimes -- and have in the past -- used others. These include:

Yellow Dog Linux: While Yellow Dog seems to be putting its proverbial eggs in the PlayStation 3 basket, the distro does have a history as being the distro for Macs. Yellow Dog 3 "Sirius" is a better-than-average distro for Old World Macs using BootX on a separate partition, and its Red Hat roots make is very adequate for those Macs that predate the turn of the 21st century. However -- you knew that was coming -- Terra Soft Solutions, the parent company for Yellow Dog, is not exactly the most user-friendly company, unless you plop down $70 for an "Enhanced User Account" for YDL.net. By the way, if you're tired of digging around for the download page for Yellow Dog, it's here. You're welcome.

Red Hat: I use Red Hat at school (Go Cabrillo College Seahawks!). Red Hat works behind the scenes for a variety of companies with which I have daily contact. As a distro, Red Hat is ubiquitous and there's really nothing I can add to the volumes written by one of the oldest distros. It's huge, it works, it's corporate -- what more can you say?

Mandriva: I can't figure out Mandriva. At a recent installfest at Cabrillo College in Aptos, Calif., an 11-year-old installed Mandriva on his Dell boxes. In the process, I put it on a Dell box that was doing nothing but sitting there, and I thought the distro worked well. But I installed it once on a laptop and, for some reason, when I went to change the distro, the BIOS had changed to where I couldn't boot from the CD. Easily fixed, of course, but the thing is I didn't change the BIOS. My wife and daughter didn't, and neither did the cat. Mysterious, I know, and more than likely it had nothing to do with the use of Mandriva, but until I can explain some of the strange things that happen when I try Mandriva, I'm avoiding it.

Knoppix: I've had this Knoppix CD that I've been carrying around for nearly two years, but it wasn't until recently that I used it for an emergency. If there were a Nobel Prize for distros, Klaus Knopper should top the short list -- not only was the disk helpful in solving my problem, I kept it on the machine for a significant amount of time while I waded through what it had to offer. It's great, but I don't use it too often.

Ubuntu: While I'm happy with Xubuntu, whenever I try Ubuntu on an Intel box or laptop, I keep thinking, "You know, this screams out 'Debian' to me," and I generally lose interest. Another thing that usually keeps me at an arm's length from Ubuntu is the split-screen syndrome -- the Live CD always gives me a bonus in the screen department with two screens, and I know how to fix it (and do), but I have to say I'm just not a bandwagoner, although I recognize and appreciate Ubuntu's contributions to FOSS.

One of the universal digital truths is that the difference between most distros is painfully minuscule, and that the object with having a plethora of options -- some 350 active distros, according to Distrowatch's count -- is the beauty behind the freedom of choice you have regarding what runs your computer.

(Larry Cafiero, editor/publisher of Open Source and Free Software Reporter, is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation.)

Now, the ones that I have personally used are Ubuntu, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, and Debian. All are great distributions and each has their own look and feel.

Ubuntu is by far the most popular. Perhaps the reason is the fact that some Dell and HP computers are now sold with Ubuntu as the main Operating System on them. Although they are few, it is still a start in the direction of a mainstream Linux Operating System. Ubuntu has it's own little problems, mostly dealing with drivers and codecs. I personally stuck with Ubuntu as it was the most familiar and, as i found it to be, a little more convenient than the others.

Mandriva is another popular distribution based on Red Hat. Mandriva is an rpm-based distribution and is different from Ubuntu and Debian. Mandriva is an excellent distribution for its look and feel. Those who like a smooth interface and beautiful designed artwork in their system would love using this distribution. For me, the rpm system was just too different for my tastes and was hard to get used to.

PCLinuxOS is perhaps Ubuntu's main competitor. The system is directed in the direction of being easy to use and to work right out of the box. It is designated to those who would like to use Linux but not have to deal with too much of the Terminal. PCLinuxOS was built to be a "better" Mandriva Linux and in my opinion, it has become that.

Debian is perhaps the mother of all distributions out there, parallel to Red Hat Linux. Many of the distributions are based on it and use its package management system APT. Debian was built to create a more stable and maintained Softlanding Linux System. Debian has become a very stable and wellbuilt system, offering the most comprehensive interface. Another thing that people should take into consideration is that many of the favorite distributions out there would not exist today if it had not been for Ian Murdock building this system.

Again, I must stress that fact that everyone has their preferences, but in my opinion Ubuntu is perhaps going to lose its title soon if the Ubuntu team does not speed up the process of fixing the many bugs that exist in the system.

The problem being that I can hardly keep track of anything that I didn't write and post instantly. I've got three notebooks, each a different size (one "moleskin" type book, though no skins were harmed in its making; one composition book; one steno notepad), and a number of computers ($15 Laptop, $0 Laptop, converted Maxspeed Maxterm thin client, Dell Optiplex GX520, iBook G4), have of which change Linux distros as often as most people change underwear (that's daily, for those of you not following), with /home partitions constantly moving, being deleted and otherwise being ignored.

So the theory is that by centralizing everything on Google Docs, I can better keep track of what is where, what is going where and what went where. That's the theory anyway.

And while I'm on the subject, it's time for me to make complete backups of all my blogs, especially Click, which has the most posts and is on a server that is nowhere near as reliable as those of Google or WordPress. The great thing about WordPress, as far as backups go, is the ability to export the entire blog as XML. For Google, and probably for Movable Type, I'll just have to save monthly archives going all the way back

But I haven't been the most prolific blogger of late. It all began when the esteemed, highly qualified individuals who run the insidesocal.com blogs (including Click) decided that the best way to stop DNS-level spam attacks was to put an IP block on the entire European continent, costing me every link I could hope to get for Linux-related material (yep, Linux and FOSS is huge in Europe; where else would they even think of publishing "Debian Fur Dummies"?).

So I stopped pimping Click and started this blog, also throwing items to the great LXer. Losing Distrowatch as a source of links to reviews of Linux and BSD distros was probably the biggest blow. So I've pretty much been not caring about traffic on Click, which hovers at a steady 150-250 a day.

Aqui esta un pequeño resumen

	Ubuntu	PCLinuxOS	openSUSE	Fedora	Mint	Sabayon	MEPIS	Freespire
Ease of installation
Ease of use
Package management
Speed
Average	8.75	8.5	7.75	6.5	9	6	7.25	8

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Para quem ainda não conhece, aqui vai a dica de um site muito legal sobre Linux. O Distrowatch é um site que agrega informações sobre inúmeras distribuições Linux, incluindo todas as mais populares até algumas totalmente desconhecidas.Para os interessados em conhecer mais sobre Linux e suas principais distribuições, este site é um bom ponto de partida. Ele possui uma página para cada distribuição, informando o ambiente gráfico, notícias de lançamento de versões, análises da distribuição que tenham sido publicadas, screenshots, versões dos diferentes softwares, e muito mais coisa.

Eu já uso Linux em casa desde 2003, e já instalei uma boa quantidade de distribuições. Já há cerca de 1 ano eu uso o Kubuntu (gosto muito mais do KDE do que do Gnome), mas já usei Conectiva, Red Hat, Knoppix, Mandrake, Suse e instalei até o Solaris 10 (mas este só durou um dia, impossível usar aquele Java Desktop System pesadíssimo).

As preferências por distribuições variam muito de uma pessoa pra outra, mas atualmente eu recomendo utilizar ou o Kubuntu ou o Ubuntu. A diferença entre os 2 é que o primeiro usa o KDE e o segundo usa o Gnome como interface gráfica. Eu particularmente prefiro muito o KDE, mas várias pessoas gostam do Gnome também.

Quem estiver interessado em começar a usar e quiser umas dicas, estamos aí pra ajudar!

The Top 10 are

1. Ubuntu 7.10
2.  PCLinuxOS 2007
3.  openSUSE 10.3
4.  Fedora 8
5.  Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
6.  Mandriva Linux 2008
7. SimplyMEPIS 6.5
8.  Gentoo Linux 2007
9.  Slackware Linux 12.0
10.  Sabayon Linux 3.4

The Other stats relates to the number of people using IRC channel of a distribution.
Here again Ubuntu is way ahead of others. However, there is a huge deviation from PHR and we have Gentoo on second place followed by debian.

The Top 10 in this list are

1.  Ubuntu    
2. Gentoo Linux 
3. Debian GNU/Linux
4. Kubuntu    
5. FreeBSD    
6. Arch Linux 
7. Slackware Linux
8. Fedora   
9. openSUSE   
10. CentOS

Mandriva occupies 12 place and the current Distrowatch PHR topper PCLinuxOS is at 18th position.
Key thing to note is that Ubuntu had 1,240 users on IRC where as PCLOS had just 32.

The IRC stats collector Marijn Schouten concluded:
"I think that IRC statistics are more representative of current number of users while PHR is more representative of the number of people that are not actually using a distro, but are merely curious as to what sets it apart from the others. Such interest is more fickle than being an actual user of a distro. Therefore I think IRC rank is more representative of the actual size of the community around a distro, which I think is the relevant measure to rank distros by."

Now this does not go well with me. IRC is more for technical users; most of my friends using Linux never log on to any IRC channel. If they have any issue, they Google for it or look at the distribution Forums. My claim to technical users using IRC is further supported by the fact that "geeky" distributions ( Gentoo, Debian, Arch, Slackware and CentOS) and operating system ( FreeBSD) constitute majority of the top 10 list. Not sure how many average users use either of the above listed ones as their desktop operating system. I was a great fan of Arch Linux on desktop, untill I found PCLOS and gave in to ease of use, however, I do not consider myself as average user.

Ubuntu is a distribution used equally by geeks as well as average user. We see too many software being developed on top of Ubuntu, mac4Lin being a very good example. Hence, I assume that those developers contribute to high number of users of Ubuntu in IRC.

If you have a different opinion, please share it.

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