title>Distro shares

Distro share distribution

Linux Counter (counter.li.org) has been keeping track of many things for many years. One of those is distro share percentages. Here is how they stacked up, as of December 9, 2007. The data is derived from 147,964 registrations entered, and 151,087 values .

distribution Count Percent
centos 1190 0.80%
debian 28949 19.56%
fedora core 10451 7.06%
gentoo 12642 8.54%
kubuntu 1837 1.24%
mandrake 7602 5.14%
mandriva 2870 1.94%
red hat 11349 7.67%
suse 14757 9.97%
slackware 13166 8.90%
ubuntu 19490 13.17%
Others 26783 18.10%

[Note... we could drop these in a spreadsheet and see it in a pie chart. Would probably look better. — ds]