Tucows download stats

[Nathan Myers]

In this week's LWN, while discussing Tucows download statistics, 
Liz observes:

  The really startling note from the three months worth of data, 
  still a small sampling, is the lead that the two RPM-based 
  distributions have on the rest of the pack. It will be an 
  interesting trend to watch. 

Considering that Corel and Stormix are basically Debian plus
some add-ons, it's worth looking at the statistics with the 
three combined.

February
Linux-Mandrake     46%
Red Hat            27%
Debian+            18%
SuSE                3%
Slackware           3%
Caldera             3%

March
Debian+            36%
Linux-Mandrake     31%
Red Hat            14%
Caldera             6%
SuSE                5%
FreeBSD             4%
Slackware           1%

April
Red Hat            31%
Debian+            29%
Linux-Mandrake     29%
Caldera             4%
FreeBSD             3%
SuSE                3%
Slackware           2%
Yellow Dog Linux    1%

Here we have the Debian/Apt-packaged family easily keeping up with the 
more heavily-promoted commercial distributions.  March is interesting 
in that Debian downloads far exceed Mandrake's much-hyped popularity.

Perhaps once Potato is out, Debian will just take over the world; 
then all those people working on proprietary distros can go home and 
do something productive instead. :-)

Nathan Myers
ncm@nospam.cantrip.org