[Ambassadors] FYI "Fedora ranking pulled ahead of Ubuntu"

[Larry Cafiero]

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  . . . .

Further, the statistics on Distrowatch.com are based on page visits, not
downloads, which is not exactly the most scientific method of gauging
popularity.

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.

(And kital is right about comparing us and them: Don't).

Larry Cafiero

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Anuj More <anujmorex at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/18/2010 2:39 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 17.11.2010, 21:01 -0500 schrieb David Ramsey:
> >> "Fedora ranking pulled ahead of Ubuntu" -
> >>
> >> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1416718
> >>
> >> referenced "Linux Distributions - Facts and Figures" -
> >>
> >> http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
> > Only within the last month and this is because we had a release in this
> > timeframe, Ubuntu didn't. It's always like this when one of us releases
> > a new version.
> >
> > Regars,
> > Christoph
> >
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> Someone on IRC (I think it was Kital) asked me to stop comparing Fedora
> with Ubuntu. After using Fedora myself, that sounds sensible.
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