The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular?
To try to answer these questions, we have looked at data from Google with the highly useful Insights for Search , which gave us a number of interesting and often surprising results.
Aside from just looking at Linux itself, we have included eight common Linux distributions in this survey: Ubuntu , OpenSUSE , Fedora , Debian , Red Hat , Mandriva , Slackware and Gentoo .
(We use both Ubuntu and Red Hat here at Pingdom, so of course we had to include those two!)
How we determined popularity
To have a way to judge popularity, we have looked at where a specific search term is most popular, i.e. how likely it is for someone in a region (country or state) to search for that specific term, for example “Linux” or “Ubuntu”. Google calls this “regional i...
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blackbearnh writes “The Linux Standard Base is the grand attempt to create a binary-level interface that application developers can use to create software which will run on any distribution of Linux. Theodore Tso, who helps maintain the LSB, talked recently with O’Reilly News about what the LSB does behind the scenes, how it benefits ISVs and end users, and what the greatest challenges left on the plate are. ‘One of the most vexing problems has been on the desktop where the Op... more
blackbearnh writes “The Linux Standard Base is the grand attempt to create a binary-level interface that application developers can use to create software which will run on any distribution of Linux. Theodore Tso, who helps maintain the LSB, talked recently with O’Reilly News about what the LSB does behind the scenes, how it benefits ISVs and end users, and what the greatest challenges left on the plate are. ‘One of the most vexing problems has been on the desktop where the Op... more
blackbearnh writes “The Linux Standard Base is the grand attempt to create a binary-level interface that application developers can use to create software which will run on any distribution of Linux. Theodore Tso, who helps maintain the LSB, talked recently with O’Reilly News about what the LSB does behind the scenes, how it benefits ISVs and end users, and what the greatest challenges left on the plate are. ‘One of the most vexing problems has been on the desktop where the Op... more
YouTube has around 20 million unique visitors every month, and thousands of blogs and websites link to YouTube videos. They serve more than 100 million videos per day, and more than 65,000 videos are uploaded daily. As a small metric of how popular YouTube has become in little over a year, according to Alexa data, they now have more daily visitors than MySpace . (YouTube and MySpace even made a deal where MySpace users can add YouTube videos to their pages.)
So how are they perfor... more
Pingdom has opened up the gates for programmer creativity.
No matter how many features we or anyone else have, there will always be something that at least one user wants that isn’t there. There will always be special needs. We decided that we didn’t want to limit any of our customers, and have therefore given them the tools to create their own dream application using Pingdom data.
Pingdom users can now access their own Pingdom uptime check data via a Web Service API, giving the... more
There’s a Pingdom toolbox coming up. It is focused on providing public information about domain names and web servers all over the Internet. The intention is for this to be a general set of tools for researching the Internet and we will provide it for free.
The first version of this toolbox is coming in a couple of weeks, and will allow you to search for a domain name and get basic information about the website it leads to and the server it is hosted on.
Image: To the left, basi... more
Pinging the Press From: royal.pingdom.com Post Date: 2006-11-15 08:31:16
The press has started to take notice of how useful GIGRIB is to find out facts about network outages and website problems.
Back when GIGRIB was under the Ipwalk umbrella, GIGRIB was already being used by several members of the press to get facts about site outages, for example the extensive AllofMP3s site problems , to name just one example.
Pingdom recently took custody of GIGRIB from our sister company Ipwalk, and in the short time since then, GIGRIB data has already appeared several... more
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