Re: next debian stable ?
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 04:25:07PM -0500, David Krider wrote:
> Really... Do you have a reference somewhere? I suppose you're giving as
> much support to your argument as I gave to mine, but whenever I see
> polls on the net, Red Hat, SuSE, and Mandrake are typically in the lead.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/survey/survey.cgi?view=results&id=0124200313234
This has been more typical of what I've been seeing since about
February for desktop users. On servers, I've typically seen Debian
between 45 and 60%.
I really wish more people used the linux counter at
http://counter.li.org/ so that we would know these things more
accurately. They list Debian in third place overall, under 2% of
Mandrake's market share, and just over half of that of Red Hat's. I
consider Desktop Linux to show the near future, while li.org is more
authoritive of recent but more dated info.
> You can bet that if the move doesn't hurt Red Hat, the other
> commercial vendors will follow suit...
Rest assured it won't happen here. Though I wouldn't consider debian
stable to be behind the times so much as other distros tend to be
wreckless members of the heatseeker[1] society. Anybody who watched
Red Hat release that unstable version of gcc into a stable distro
knows this firsthand. Mandrake tends to have more heatseeking
properties than Red Hat, though none yet with quite the same
spectacular results.
[1] http://ursine.dyndns.org/jargon/html/entry/heatseeker.html
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