-----Original Message----- From: fedora-marketing-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-marketing-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rahul Sundaram Sent: Sunday, 26 August 2007 10:50 AM To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base Subject: Re: 2007 Desktop Linux Survey Marc Wiriadisastra wrote: > Has anyone been keeping an eye on specific desktop use? Not just in Fedora > but across the board. The 2007 Linux Survey was released with some > interesting results. > > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html > > "The Red Hat/Fedora family -- which this year includes CentOS -- came in at > the fourth spot with 9 percent. This represents a small loss from last year > when Fedora had 7 percent, while Red Hat added in a mere 2.2 percent, for a > total, including smaller Red Hat/Fedora-based distributions of less than 10 > percent." This is the results of the online survey of 38.000 users asking for their desktop/laptop usage. There are some odd results such as Gentoo being on 7% while Mandriva not showing up much at all. I wasn't even aware they were doing a survey earlier. Interesting results nevertheless. The usage of thunderbird and virtualbox for example. Rahul I would have to agree that there were some anomalies in the results which they openly admit to which is good. It's dependant on the users knowing about it and not knowing about it. I was surprised by KDE being as popular as it is for example. Thunderbird and Virtualbox as well (I've never heard of Virtualbox till that article). Bit of looking around shows Virtualbox having a GPL or LGPL license is there any chance of adding it to Fedora? Cheers, Marc -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
