Linux Doubling In Popularity?

Each year, DesktopLinux.com conducts a survey to see what’s up with the Linux community. Various questions are asked, such as “Is Linux your primary OS?” and “What is your preferred distro”? As it turns out, 2006’s results were that 14,535 people were using Linux, while this year the number skyrocketed to 38,500. That’s quite impressive. Not surprisingly, Ubuntu is still the leading distro of choice.

Since DesktopLinux.com’s recently completed survey is a self-selected group, we can’t claim scientific proof that the number of desktop Linux users has more than doubled in the past year. Still, this year’s survey produced 38,500 votes versus 14,535 votes over the same number of days in a similar survey one year ago.

Source: DesktopLinux