Re: Debian is losing its users

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

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Wei Chen wrote on 2008-03-26 14:28:
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> Oh. Sorry. This page: http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian

- From this [1] it would appear, that debian is presently outperforming
suse and fedora, but all three are strongly outperformed by ubuntu [2].

Since ubuntu is based on debian, it would appear that more people are
searching for debian packets than ever before.

I doubt that a simple counting of search strings is a reliable measure
of usage, though:

- From comparing the results on 'windows' and 'linux' of that site, it
would appear that only about three times as many people prefer the first
to the latter [3].

Johannes

[1]
http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian%2C+suse%2C+fedora&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

[2]
http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian%2C+suse%2C+fedora%2C+ubuntu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

[3]
http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian%2C+linux&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
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