Well, now that that is settled, what is the linux distro of choice for 
the sparc platform?

I have an utlra 5 to play with and would rather run linux then solaris.

Anthony




George Toft wrote:

>Google is your friend:
>http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/position
>
>US Retail Market
>January - December 2001
>1. Redhat: 39,95%
>2. Mandrake:  33,08%
>3. Suse:  23,02%
>4. Corel:  2,33%
>5. Caldera: 1,12%
>6. Turbolinux:  0,50%
>
>Market share, by definition, means commercial.
>
>
>However, looking more broadly, as someone else has done here:
>http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1407&lang=en
>on can see that Debian has a higher implementation rate than I had
>previously been made aware of.
>
>
>As far as SuSE being the leading distro in Europe, I could not find any
>European statistics.  I remember reading it some literature they sent me
>some time ago.  Oh well.
>
>
>George
>
>
>Derek Neighbors wrote:
>  
>
>>>Go with what you know.  If you don't know either Debian os SuSE, I
>>>would suggest SuSE - it has more market share (#1 distro in Europe),
>>>and is a more mainstream distro.
>>>      
>>>
>>Granted Im biased being a Debianite, but I would like to see the numbers
>>that show SuSE has more market share.  It certainly is popular in Europe
>>(I dont know if #1, #1 in Germany perhaps). More mainstream perhaps if
>>mainstream == corporate.  I dispute still that is has more marketshare.
>>
>>Numbers I looked at a while ago had 1-3 as
>>
>>1. Red Hat (by a lot)
>>2. Debian
>>3. Mandrake
>>
>>(and 2-5 were all really close)
>>
>>An interesting side note is its nearly impossible for real numbers,
>>because on like traditional software a vendor cant tell you 'units
>>shipped', the stores cant tell you 'units bought' and with mirrors and
>>cheap CD-R 'units downloaded' is likely in accurate.  An example is I
>>have 10 machines or so running Debian right now, but I borrowed a potato
>>disk from a friend sometime ago and burned me a copy.
>>
>>-Derek
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