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Re: Linux Journal "Reader's Choice Awards"



Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 15, 1997 at 01:28:00PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > Vote for Debian as your favorite distribution at
> > http://www.ssc.com/lj/readchoice.html .
> 
> Unfortunate that it seems to be very commercially-oriented.
> Under X servers, Accelerated X, then Metro X, then XFree was third,
> while I suspect XFree would be the most popular of the three by far.
> Similarly all the backup tools listed are commercial AFAIK.

This calls to mind a survey I read by O'Reilly at www.ora.com regarding
web-crawling to find out various facts about usage/trends. At one point 
he broke down what powers various web sites. I don't have the figures at 
hand at the moment, but Netscape had a huge lead, followed by apache, 
followed by others followed by (whatever they use on NT).  The actual 
numbers were eye-poppers.
> 
> Hamish
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