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Old 04-07-2008, 07:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Linux Trends Show Ubuntu Overtaking Competition

I just read Louis Gray’s post titled “On the Web, If You’re Not Growing, You’re Dying.” It gave me a chilling realization about web services. Like everything else, what goes up must come down. This must apply to Linux distributions too, right? So, what’s happening with Linux? Which distributions are growing? Like Louis Gray, I’m going to use data from Google Trends. People searching the name of Linux distributions on Google can be considered new users. After all, wouldn’t experienced Linux users already know where the websites of the big Linux distributions are?

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Old 04-07-2008, 08:07 PM   #2 (permalink)
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It seems that Arch is growing at a steady rate too . Even Ubuntu has a whole sub-forum dedicated to Arch which you can access Here . Then again the author hasn't put Mandriva in there which I find very odd.
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I just read Louis Gray’s post titled “On the Web, If You’re Not Growing, You’re Dying.” It gave me a chilling realization about web services. Like everything else, what goes up must come down. This must apply to Linux distributions too, right? So, what’s happening with Linux? Which distributions are growing? Like Louis Gray, I’m going to use data from Google Trends. People searching the name of Linux distributions on Google can be considered new users. After all, wouldn’t experienced Linux users already know where the websites of the big Linux distributions are? Read On [http://codingexperiments.com/archives/149]
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If you remove the last bracket in the link it should work.
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