[ccp4bb] Which Linux do you use? Results

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From: "Winter, G (Graeme)" g {- dot -} winter {- at -} DL {- dot -} AC {- dot -} UK
Date: 2008-09-24

Dear BB,

Many thanks for the ~100 responses I received - I appreciate the time
you have all taken to respond. Here are the results so far, which I will
assume represent a statistically valid sample. To be clear though - what
follows is not a recommendation for what systems are good! I have also
not broken this down into exact numbers, since I was working from fuzzy
input.

Top rank: Ubuntu 8.x - this was clearly popular with people who maintain
their own machines

Rank 2: RHEL4 / Centos 4 (~ same thing) and RHEL 5 / Centos 5 (ditto) -
combined approximately same as Ubuntu - very popular with large labs,
corporate environments.

Rank 3: SuSE 10.3 / Fedora 9 / Fedora 8

Rank 4: SuSE 10.1, 11 / Mandriva

Last rank: Debian / Fedora <= 6 / SuSE < 10 / Ubuntu <= 7

Ubuntu 8.x + RHEL / Centos 4 + 5 was significantly over half of the
responses. SuSE systems may have come out higher if it wasn't for the
large numbers of different versions being used out there - this diluted
the results a little. "All fedora versions" and "all SuSE versions"
would give Ubuntu 8.x a run for it's money, but that just indicates how
popular ubuntu is.

Make of this what you will - it has certainly been an eye opener for me.

Best wishes,

Graeme

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