Seed Newsvine
August 22, 2008
Global popularity of the different Linux distributions
Posted by: admin : Category: linux
Some interesting observations
- Ubuntu is most popular in Italy and Cuba.
- OpenSUSE is most popular in Russia and the Czech Republic.
- Red Hat is most popular in Bangladesh and Nepal.
- Debian is most popular in Cuba.
- Cuba is in the top five (interest-wise) of three of the eight distributions in this survey.
- Indonesia is in the top five of four of the distributions.
- Russia and the Czech Republic are in the top five of five of the distributions.
- The United States is not in the top five of any of the distributions.
Note again that when we say “popular” here, we mean how popular the search term is. After all, this is based on Google search data.
It might also be worth pointing out that the results are normalized, so the size of each region is removed as a factor. In other words, everything is in proportion to the size of the region (the total number of searches in that region, we assume). That means that larger regions are not favored over small, as would be the case otherwise.