[aklug] Re: Natty Issues

I think the "nothing does" part is accurate. I've done lot's of searches
on Ubuntu and Suse issues while assisting others and while I have
installed/run Suse, I've never used Ubuntu on one of my boxes.

Others as well, but those are on your list.

Jim G

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 20:21 -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2011, Arthur Corliss elucidated thus:
> > I have to point out the obvious: the "ranking" is purely based on
> > page hits on *their* site. I have to seriously question how relevant
> > and accurate such an arbitrary metric is. I never use the site,
> > never had a use for it. Who here actually when to distrowatch first
> > before choosing a distro to sample Linux? How many people instead a)
> > went to a search engine, or b) used what their buddy recommended?
> >
> > In short, I think the distrowatch metric is not only worthless, but
> > it most likely fails to capture the vast majority of veteran Linux
> > users out there. Particularly those who go straight to their distro's
> > site or mailing list to get updates. I could be wrong, but I doubt
> > it.
>
> OK, would this work?
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+fedora%2C+centos%2C+rhel%2C+suse&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
>
> :) Even more disparity than the Distro Watch links.
>
> But you're right, it doesn't paint a 100% accurate picture. Nothing
> does.
>
> j
>

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Received on Mon May 2 20:46:41 2011