On 06/04/2009 02:08 AM, pavithran wrote: > > When I meant RPM is passe I was implying it from the fact tthat ubuntu has > eaten over the share of both fedora and opensuse(for a diff reason ) .
RPM is just a low level tool comparable to dpkg. Popularity often has nothing to do with tools like this.The most popular operating system - Windows doesn't even have a integrate package manager! I would like to know your sources for estimating "market share". Fedora has consistently grown every release http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics Even assuming that one distribution takes away "market share" of another distribution, how does that help Linux on the whole? If a distribution really wants to make a difference, it's goal cannot really be fighting over the already minuscule share of users instead of concentrating on the bigger pie. > Fedora started it's spin projects and even started giving the project a new > look only after it realised the stiff competition from Ubuntu . Err, you obviously have your history wrong. Fedora spins evolved from the merger of core and extras repository which has nothing to do with any other distribution. You seem to think distributions are continuously in competition while in reality, much of the software in a distribution is from common upstream sources and Fedora is very active there http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions > No I don't have exact count of how many windows installations in netbooks > are still running windows The vendors and analysts have published such information. There is zero dispute about this. Windows continues to remain the majority by far on netbooks, laptops and desktops but hey if your analysis is just between friends, then of course I can claim 100% Linux even. Rahul _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
