most commonly used Linux version?

[Jack]

I'll add my two cents.

It's going to be awful hard to pin down a number. RH probably makes the most money in the server market, but debian servers are frequently free.

How are you going to account for numbers? Especially if the server is set up not to report the distro?

My server runs on debian, straight and pure. Why? Stability. I maintain it, and it the one distro I haven't broken to a point I need to format and re-install. I've borked RH, Mandriva and just hated the package management in SuSE. I've bought retail versions of all of those.

That said, I can see how big companies would lean to RH or SuSE or such over debian. I can't even imagine building a Ubuntu server. Madness, sheer madness.

JMNSHO,
Jack

 

--- On Tue, 5/24/11, thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: most commonly used Linux version?
> To: "jldugger at gmail.com" <jldugger at gmail.com>
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 7:51 AM
> Again, these stats are suspect simply
> because they are from a relatively niche sample. No argument
> Ubuntu does great in non-paid space, but that ain't a
> sustainable business model.
> 
> And in enterprise compute, I simply never hear of Ubuntu.
> So if I were to do a quick survey of that niche space it'd
> look awful for Canonical.
> 
> There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damned lies, and
> statistics.
> 
> "jldugger at gmail.com"
> <jldugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Meanwhile, on Linode[1]...
> 
> 48% Ubuntu
> 24% Debian
> 16% CentOS
> 4.3% Fedora
> 3.1% Gentoo
> 
> Now granted, #1 in nonpaying customers is kind of a tough
> spot to be
> in. And the RHEL pricing model doesn't lend itself to The
> Cloud. I
> imagine Canonical has a paid agreement to cater their OS to
> EC2, but
> we can't read their 10-K's so we'll never know.
> 
> Justin
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