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Re: Desktop Linux Survey
by Carewolf on Friday 24/Aug/2007, @02:03

So lets analyze the numbers.

openSuse:
18000 * 9,5% = 1710
27000 * 16.5% = 4455
38500 * 21% = 8085

Differences:
18000 early votes: 9.5% openSUSE
9000 middle votes: 30.5% openSUSE
9500 late votes: 38.2% openSUSE

GNOME:
18000 * 37.5 = 6750
27000 * 42.5 = 11475
38500 * 45 = 17325

Differences:
18000 early votes: 37.5% GNOME
9000 middle votes: 52.5% GNOME
9500 late votes: 61.6% GNOME

Strange, but no smoking gun. You need time stamps to prove the "10000" strange votes.

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Re: Desktop Linux Survey
by scratching my head on Friday 24/Aug/2007, @09:44

The News page at opensuse.org ( http://news.opensuse.org/ ) has this to say about the survey:

### . What’s striking is that popularity of openSUSE almost
### . doubled form (sic!) roughly 10% in 2006 to close to
### . 20% in 2007 survey.

Oh yeah, really striking...

I'm an openSUSE user myself, and I like the distro quite a lot, as well as their fine developers (I don't like their upper/top management types though).

But with these DesktopLinux figures, something smells fishy....

And also compare them to the figures that Novell's own recently published user survey showed: KDE there was by far the most popular desktop environment still, dispite the lots of "anti-KDE" bruhuahua that seemed to originate from their management level for a certain period....

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