It's surprisingly hard to find statistics on linux distribution popularity by version number.
But wikipedia to the rescue. Their squid logs break down user-agent string statistics by OS. Here's the May 2010 report:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2010-05/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
Linux seems to account for about 2% of all browsing. It looks like some browsers just report "Linux" as their OS, unfortunately. But among os-versioned browser strings, it looks like Ubuntu dominates linux distros by about 10:1, and almost all Ubuntu users are running either Lucid or Karmic (about 50/50).
1 comment:
One factor to keep in mind:
Hardy (8.04) was an LTS release and will have been installed because of the "Long Term Support" on very large numbers of servers.
Very few servers ever browse wikipedia ;)
Stats are useful ONLY for desktop users.
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