Linux User Survey: Results
Below are some preliminary results from the Linux User Survey.
Thank you to all of you who participated! If you haven't already done so,
please fill out the survey
form. A larger number of responses will enable us to perform a more
detailed analysis which will be published soon.
The most popular distro is Mandriva, with 17.9% of the respondents using it, followed by Suse, with 16.2%.
The most popular application is Firefox, with 47.9% of the respondents using it, followed by OpenOffice, with 31.6% and Thunderbird, with 12.0%.
Also appended below is a table with the break-down of the survey participants by country.
Top Distros| 1 | Mandriva | 17.9% |
| 2 | Suse | 16.2% |
| 3 | Fedora | 11.1% |
| 4 | Debian | 7.7% |
| 5 | Red Hat | 6.8% |
| 6 | Xandros | 5.1% |
| 7 | Slackware | 5.1% |
| 8 | Ubuntu | 3.4% |
| 9 | Centos | 3.4% |
| 10 | Mepis | 3.4% |
| 11 | Gentoo | 3.4% |
| 12 | Knoppix | 2.6% |
| 13 | Linspire | 1.7% |
| 15 | Novell | 0.9% |
| 17 | Phlak | 0.9% |
| 19 | Simplymepis | 0.9% |
| 20 | Kubuntu | 0.9% |
| 21 | Pclouxos | 0.9% |
Top Applications
| 1 | Firefox | 47.9% |
| 2 | OpenOffice | 31.6% |
| 3 | Thunderbird | 12.0% |
| 4 | Xmms | 7.7% |
| 5 | Evolution | 6.8% |
| 6 | Apache | 6.8% |
| 7 | Mozilla | 6.8% |
| 8 | Gaim | 5.1% |
| 9 | Kmail | 5.1% |
| 10 | Gimp | 4.3% |
| 11 | Samba | 4.3% |
| 12 | Emacs | 3.4% |
| 13 | Kde | 3.4% |
| 1 | USA | 43.6% |
| 2 | Australia | 6.0% |
| 3 | UK | 5.1% |
| 4 | India | 4.3% |
| 5 | Canada | 4.3% |
| 6 | Indonesia | 2.6% |
| 7 | Romania | 1.7% |
| 8 | Namibia | 1.7% |
| 9 | Poland | 1.7% |
| 10 | Brazil | 1.7% |
| 11 | Thailand | 1.7% |
| 12 | New Zealand | 1.7% |
| 13 | The Netherlands | 1.7% |
| 14 | Greece | 0.9% |
| 15 | Spain | 0.9% |
| 16 | Ecuador | 0.9% |
| 17 | China | 0.9% |
| 18 | Bangladesh | 0.9% |
| 19 | Lithuania | 0.9% |
| 20 | Pakistan | 0.9% |
| 21 | Sweden | 0.9% |
| 22 | Germany | 0.9% |
| 23 | Turkey | 0.9% |
| 25 | Egypt | 0.9% |
