Comments on: Does Ubuntu help Linux ?

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:52:22 +0000

@Sense: looks like Ubuntu will surpass Linux itself in the next few years. Now go back doing your bug triaging homework

By: Sense Hofstede

Sense Hofstede — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:41:50 +0000

Interesting stats!
If you look here: http://tinyurl.com/5mtgoc you see that Ubuntu has also decreased the attention for linux! It is true that many people are using Ubuntu as a synonym for linux!
Also very interesting are the small bulbs every time a new Ubuntu version has been released.

By: Søren C’s blog » Ubuntu og de andre distributioner

Søren C’s blog » Ubuntu og de andre distributioner — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:40:01 +0000

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By: Kai Schroeder

Kai Schroeder — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:43:21 +0000

I have played with that myself some time ago. Imho, the popularity of Fedora and Debian is not decreasing – its just that technical topics decline in percentage to other search topics. I remember that I tried OpenGL, Java, Linux and the like. And you can see that people really have a tremendous interest in drivers (nvidia, ati) and DirectX around christmas time.

By: MZ

MZ — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:00:10 +0000

Not only that, but it looks like interest in Ubuntu has plateaued (damn there are a lot of vowels in that word). There may even have been slightly more queries for Ubuntu during the 7.10 release than during the 8.04 release, and the latter is an LTS.