Ubuntu my love, we won ! :o)

[Sean Miller]

crun wrote:

>Good to see Ubuntu rise so fast in Distrowatch's ratings. As for how
>significant these figures are - I don't know - they only show what
>visitors to Distrowatch's site are interested in, which is only a small
>subset. Still, most of the top 10 consists of the big guns, so it's nice
>to see upstarts like Ubuntu and Mepis in there.
>  
>
Yes, what amazes me is that Ubuntu is at number 1 in the last month... I 
know it was on the coverdisk of Linux Format here in the UK one issue 
back, has this same distribution channel been used the world over (might 
explain it?) or - perhaps - has "word of mouth" prevailed over the 
marketing of the aforementioned "big guns" ?

Distrowatch last month figures (brackets are page hits/day)...

1. Ubuntu (1702)
2. Mandrake (1481)
3. MEPIS (1384)
4. SuSE (1315)
5. Fedora (1230)
6. Debian (1018)
7. Slackware (764)
8. Gentoo (731)
9. Knoppix (712)
10. Xandros (591)

Sean