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Linux User Survey

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%
Top Countries
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%



This Survey was conduct at about.linux.com

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