While it'd be nice if we had more user awareness about such polls, I wouldn't read too much into the results. It is based on 14,500 votes, which while being a large number, isn't necessarily representative of the whole linux community. It'd make good publicity for Fedora to be ranked higher, but I don't think this is a user-side issue. It is probably either a "Fedora users don't read desktoplinux" problem (I know I don't, and I'm a huge geek), or a "Fedora users weren't made aware of the poll" issue. Sometimes other distributions put links into their forums and stuff to polls like this. So I guess it comes down to, should we be more vocal about announcing polls that Fedora is in,
i.e. putting a link on the front page of FedoraProject.org and Fedora forums, or should we just let nature take its course and let Fedora users stumble onto the polls themselves. The only thing I see wrong with the first option is that I can already see a headline on Digg with something like "Fedora skews poll results by pushing users to vote for them", which could backfire on us.
<br>Regards,<br> Steve<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gerold Kassube</b> <<a href="mailto:gerold@lugd.org">gerold@lugd.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>as you all can see and read in<br><a href="http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5816278551.html">http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5816278551.html</a> we are ranged behind<br>all other ...<br><br>What should / can / must we do, to get more acceptance on the user-side?
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