What is happening to Linux?

#1

Post by dknight » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 6:57 PM UTC

What is happening to Linux?
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Re: What is happening to Linux?

#2

Post by mdwrigh2 » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 7:27 PM UTC

I think the first comment in the article hit the nail on the head -- DistroWatch is just becoming less popular.

Re: What is happening to Linux?

#3

Post by phaus » Sat, Feb 04, 2012, 8:11 PM UTC

Even if distrowatch was considered to be an accurate measure of the popularity of specific distributions, it would still be impossible to tell anything from a single visit.

I visited distrowatch sometime last week and many of the top 25 distributions were going up in popularity.

Re: What is happening to Linux?

#4

Post by dknight » Sun, Feb 05, 2012, 6:12 AM UTC

phaus wrote: post #3

Even if distrowatch was considered to be an accurate measure of the popularity of specific distributions, it would still be impossible to tell anything from a single visit. I visited distrowatch sometime last week and many of the top 25 distributions were going up in popularity.

Yeah, even I keep looking at distrowatch from time to time and I agree that some time ago many distros were showing growing popularity. However all the distributions going down in popularity at the same time surprised me.

Re: What is happening to Linux?

#5

Post by dknight » Sun, Feb 05, 2012, 6:15 AM UTC

mdwrigh2 wrote: post #2

I think the first comment in the article hit the nail on the head -- DistroWatch is just becoming less popular.

I can't figure out the reason for this though I do not refute the statement.

Re: What is happening to Linux?

#6

Post by Intermediate » Sun, Feb 05, 2012, 6:21 AM UTC

Though DistroWatch is not a good indicator of this, unfortunately it still seems like Linux is loosing it's popularity. Check out google trends http://www.google.ca/trends/?q=linux&ctab=0&geo=all&...