On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:49:32 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wei Chen wrote on 2008-03-26 14:28: > > > > 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. > From people i meet, ubuntu has a lot of exposure and a lot of new home users start with it at the moment, a lot probably has to do with it coming on a live cd so that you can try it out before committing to it. On the other hand, quite a few people I know that started with ubuntu eventually move to debian. I'm guessing that they don't need search for that word too much at that point. Also, most time I put debian in the search term it is when I have problems and I want a debian specific solution, maybe your results just show that there are a lot less problems with debian rather than a lot less users? ;-) > 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFH6nCMC1NzPRl9qEURArbtAJ9MRDGpbCoe3Iso8+GjYK9gZgt27ACcDa/p > cpFjBg9a/Dlq9CPpkLBp4eU= > =QZ/H > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
