Tucows was the first of the big-time download sites to pay close attention to Linux, and the practice continues. In the past we've run occasional snapshots of one month's download percentages. This time we're looking at the six-month download trend running through August 2001.
Mandrake has been a steady leader, with Red Hat a strong second (though with a somewhat downward trend over the period).
As we see from the huge spike in SuSE downloads in May, a six-month total tends to even out any one month's extreme results. Still, it's easy to ponder that SuSE spike: it was over 1.2 million downloads.
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Source: Tucows
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The pie chart shows shares of download totals for the whole 6-month period, showing the top ten distributions. While there is a clear break below the Big Five shown in the trend chart, the Brazilian CONECTIVA distro is an interesting standout contender.
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Source: Tucows
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