What is happening to Linux?

Posted by dknight on Saturday February 04, 2012 @01:57PM
from the intosimple.blogspot.com dept.

http://intosimple.blogspot.com/2012/02/alarming-state-of-linux-distributions.html

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Re:What is happening to Linux? by mdwrigh2 on Saturday February 04, 2012 @02:27PM (#3551802)

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

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Re:What is happening to Linux? by dknight on Sunday February 05, 2012 @01:15AM (#3553452)

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

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Re:What is happening to Linux? by Intermediate on Sunday February 05, 2012 @01:21AM (#3553460)

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&...

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Re:What is happening to Linux? by phaus on Saturday February 04, 2012 @03:11PM (#3551956)

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.

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Re:What is happening to Linux? by dknight on Sunday February 05, 2012 @01:12AM (#3553447)

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.

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