Linux distribucije - utisci/komparativno

Mr. Bond · **IntruderSRB™**

^Reci mi nikako se nisam snasao na suse-ovom sajtu ali jel istinita ona pricha da Suse vishe nije free? :S

ex_deda · *28*

Meni je Suse uvek bio najlakshi ali sad polako sve vishe koristim debian, mislim da mu je up-get grub jednostavniji brzi i bolji. Nekoristim linux za desktop ali bih najverovatnije koristio Ubuntu. Pre Ubunte naj po izgledu i broju programa beshe jedan nemachki distro koji svima daje shancu direktno da se izproba Linux preko CD-a. Nemogu da se sad setim imena... Confused

Fantastichan je inache Linux desktop, sve je toliko mnogo bolje kad radi nego Windows. Koristim win jer nemam vremena niti volje da se batrgam sa driverima. Laughing

Vaxter · Dobro upućeni član

Sa driverima nisam imao nikakvih problema, poshto su mi mashine 100% linux kompatibilne. Smile

Ubuntu, tachnije Kubuntu, sam koristio na laptopu neko vreme, a onda mi je sprzio 2 harda.
Ispostavilo se da ima problem sa 2.5" WD i Seagate hardovima.
Tad sam od istog odustao...
Nemachki distro na koji mislish je Knoppix, pretpostavljam.
Jedan od prvih Live distro-a.
Inache, Linux po meni josh nije zreo za desktop.
Bar ne za obichne korisnike...
Ono shto radi radi sjajno, ali ako ne radi...
Koji procenat ljudi ce kompajlirati, prepravljati kod, juriti svashta po config fajlovima i sl.?
Josh i vec pomenuti driveri...
Veselje...
A realno, od X-a pa na dalje sve radi na staklenim nogama...

SuSE odavno nije free...
On i RedHat su negde u isto vreme preshli u komercijalu.
Free verzija SuSE-a je OpenSuSE, a njena najsvezija verzija je 11, koja je zvanichno izashla pre dan-dva...

aureliano · ♣ El Capitán ♠

Linux popularity across the globe

August 21, 2008
The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular?

To try to answer these questions, we have looked at data from Google with the highly useful Insights for Search, which gave us a number of interesting and often surprising results.

Aside from just looking at Linux itself, we have included eight common Linux distributions in this survey: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, Slackware and Gentoo.

(We use both Ubuntu and Red Hat here at Pingdom, so of course we had to include those two!)

How we determined popularity
To have a way to judge popularity, we have looked at where a specific search term is most popular, i.e. how likely it is for someone in a region (country or state) to search for that specific term, for example “Linux” or “Ubuntu”. Google calls this “regional interest”.

If a high proportion of the searches in a country are for the term “Linux”, this should also indicate that Linux is popular in that country, or at least that there is a high interest in Linux.

Linux popularity globally
On a global level, the interest in Linux seems to be the strongest in India, Cuba and Russia, followed by the Czech Republic and Indonesia (and Bangladesh, which has the same regional interest level as Indonesia). The first Western country when looking at regional popularity is Germany which is the 10th country in regards to search popularity for Linux.

Linux popularity in the United States
In the United States, interest appears significantly stronger in Utah and California than the rest of the country. California’s high position is understandable, considering it is the home of Silicon Valley, but we are not sure why the interest for Linux is even higher in Utah. Perhaps some of our readers might shed some light on this?

Global popularity of the different Linux distributions
As mentioned in the introduction, we looked at eight common distributions: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, Slackware and Gentoo.

Some interesting observations
Ubuntu is most popular in Italy and Cuba.
OpenSUSE is most popular in Russia and the Czech Republic.
Red Hat is most popular in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Debian is most popular in Cuba.
Cuba is in the top five (interest-wise) of three of the eight distributions in this survey.
Indonesia is in the top five of four of the distributions.
Russia and the Czech Republic are in the top five of five of the distributions.
The United States is not in the top five of any of the distributions.
Note again that when we say “popular” here, we mean how popular the search term is. After all, this is based on Google search data.

It might also be worth pointing out that the results are normalized, so the size of each region is removed as a factor. In other words, everything is in proportion to the size of the region (the total number of searches in that region, we assume). That means that larger regions are not favored over small, as would be the case otherwise.

Now on to the results for the individual Linux distributions.

Countries with highest interest in Ubuntu:

Italy
Cuba
Indonesia
Norway
Czech Republic

Countries with highest interest in OpenSUSE:

Russia
Czech Republic
Moldova
Germany
Indonesia

Countries with highest interest in Fedora:

Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
India
Nepal
Zimbabwe

Countries with highest interest in Debian:

Cuba
Czech Republic
Germany
Belarus
Russia

Countries with highest interest in Red Hat:

Bangladesh
Nepal
Sri Lanka
India
Cuba

Countries with highest interest in Mandriva:

Russia
Czech Republic
Poland
France
Indonesia

Countries with highest interest in Slackware:

Bulgaria
Indonesia
Brazil
Russia
Poland

Countries with highest interest in Gentoo:

Russia
Czech Republic
Belarus
Moldova
Estonia

Conclusion
Linux has a lot of distributions (though Ubuntu is currently dominating the scene according to Distrowatch), but although we only included eight of those distributions it seems clear that many of them are favored by very different regions of the world. In other words, the distribution of the distributions (pardon the pun) is far from uniform.

In general, Linux seems to have a stronger popularity in the East than in the West, with some exceptions (like Cuba). This is perhaps not surprising, considering that it is free software and many of the countries where Linux is most popular have a relatively low income per capita compared to most countries in the West. Or perhaps there is just a stronger focus on free software and Open Source in these regions.

This could also indicate a weaker standing for Windows in the East.

We would love to hear your opinion on the results, especially from Linux users living in the countries mentioned in this survey. Let us know what you think in the comments!

Izvor:
Royal Pingdom