The Popularity of the "Major" Linux Distributions Over The Last Several Years - As Per Distrowatch

Although Distrowatch statistics may be "questionable" (as even the maintainer of Distrowatch has said), it's worth noting the popularity of the "major" Linux distributions over the last several years.

Distrowatch statistics for the last several years as a summarized from Linux distro info at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DistroWatch

According to Distrowatch, Mandriva Linux (formerly Mandrake Linux) was #1 for 2002, 2003 and 2004. And Ubuntu Linux was # 1 for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008!

Also, Mandrake Linux (now called Mandriva Linux), was # 1 for

2002, 2003, 2004 and #2 (as Mandriva) in 2005, but hasn't been in the top three since!

Red Hat Linux was # 2 for 2002 and 2003, but hasn't appeared in the top three since 2003!

And Gentoo was # 3 in 2002, but hasn't appeared in the top three since.

Here are the other Linux distribution names that have been # 2 or # 3 since 2002: Gentoo, Knoppix, Fedora, SUSE and openSUSE.

So, as you can see - Linux distributions come - and Linux distributions go!

Linux Commands Training Tips: Mandrake (a minor Linux distribution) was quite popular for a while and was derived from Red Hat Linux (a major Linux distribution) and is extremely similar to Red Hat Linux.

Knoppix Linux (a minor Linux distribution) is a Linux "live" distribution that was derived from Debian Linux (a major Linux distribution) and is similar to Debian. More on Linux "live" versions in an upcoming section.

Ubuntu Linux is free (in all senses of the word) and has become extremely popular as both a Linux desktop system and a Linux server system. You can learn more about Ubuntu Linux at:

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