I would agree with Arif -- this isn't a beauty contest and anything that promotes Linux/FOSS is a good thing, so it's more appropriate to take all the numbers together as a whole instead of breaking them out into Fedora and Ubuntu and Mint and . . . .<br>
<br>Further, the statistics on Distrowatch.com are based on page visits, not downloads, which is not exactly the most scientific method of gauging popularity. <br><br>Someone else mentioned that there are different audiences for Fedora and Ubuntu -- arguably yes, but bear in mind that the myth that Fedora is "only for experts" has been repeately disproven lately -- ask me sometime about the 70-year-old who got a Linux conversion in my shop and chose Fedora over Ubuntu after trying both -- so that gap is closing.<br>
<br>(And kital is right about comparing us and them: Don't).<br><br>Larry Cafiero<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Anuj More <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anujmorex@gmail.com">anujmorex@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 11/18/2010 2:39 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:<br>
> Am Mittwoch, den 17.11.2010, 21:01 -0500 schrieb David Ramsey:<br>
>> "Fedora ranking pulled ahead of Ubuntu" -<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1416718" target="_blank">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1416718</a><br>
>><br>
>> referenced "Linux Distributions - Facts and Figures" -<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity" target="_blank">http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity</a><br>
> Only within the last month and this is because we had a release in this<br>
> timeframe, Ubuntu didn't. It's always like this when one of us releases<br>
> a new version.<br>
><br>
> Regars,<br>
> Christoph<br>
><br>
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</div></div>Someone on IRC (I think it was Kital) asked me to stop comparing Fedora<br>
with Ubuntu. After using Fedora myself, that sounds sensible.<br>
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