[CS-FSLUG] Fedora overtakes Mandrake on Distrowatch!

[Daniel Miller]

Sigh....if only Gentoo were number 1......

Daniel Miller


On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:38:13 -0800, David Aikema <daikema at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given that Fedora is essentially a perpetually-beta distribution (a
> testbed for RHEL), I'd expect that those running Fedora would probably
> be paying more attention to a site like that.
> 
> Can anyone running Fedora comment at all on the status of the Fedora
> legacy project, which was attempting to extend the support lifetime of
> particular releases beyond the 6 - 9 month support lifetime that Red
> Hat was offering (or are we not yet at the stage where they've really
> had opportunity to take over)?
> 
> David
> 
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:13:32 -0600, N. Thompson <n.thomp at sasktel.net> wrote:
> > This is the very first time ever since all that hype about Yoper that Mandrake
> > hasn't been #1 on Distrowatch's side panel. Usually Mandrake has a
> > significant lead but now Fedora overtook it by just two hits! SUSE's not far
> > behind with just 390 less hits.
> >
> > The current top five are:
> > 1       Fedora          1415
> > 2       Mandrake        1413
> > 3       SUSE            1103
> > 4       MEPIS             998
> > 5       Debian            961
> >
> > Fedora hasn't just had a release so does this shift mean that its gaining more
> > popularity then Mandrake, or is Mandrake loosing popularity?
> >
> > More detailed statistics can be found here:
> > http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
> >
> > Anyone care to comment on this?
> >
> > Any Fedora users care to gloat* perhaps? ;-)
> >
> > * not that malicious kind of gloating of course.
> 
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