DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 228
This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
- Reviews: Fedora 8
- Statistics: Release date page hits, IRC channels
- News: Fedora 9 feature list, openSUSE Board, update on Mandriva vs Microsoft, interview with paldo developer, Linux Journal
- Released last week: Fedora 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
- Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 7.0-RC1
- New distributions: PCFluxboxOS, Satux, Screamix
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Distribution Statistics - Ubuntu Tops again
Distrowatch has released some interesting stats about prominent distributions. First one is the page hit rank (PHR) on the day of the distribution release. As expected Ubuntu tops the number of page hits on its release date, followed by PCLinuxOS and OpenSUSE.
The Top 10 are
1. Ubuntu 7.10
2. PCLinuxOS 2007
3. openSUSE 10.3
The Other stats relates to the number of people using IRC channel of a distribution.
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