Author: Derek Neighbors Date: Subject: ultra sparc and linux
> 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.