Interesting URL giving stats for an altavista search comparing OSs.
From the Debian newsletter:
Debian rules! The Sucks-Rules-O-Meter technique tries to make tongue-in-cheek testimonies about the popularity of software. The frequency of combined terms in the WWW like "foo sucks" and "foo rules" is analyzed and plotted from the results of a search engine. Statistics of [29]operating systems show as expected a strongly positive deflection for free systems like GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. The investigation about the popularity of [30]GNU/Linux distributions even points out the highest sympathy value for Debian with a large distance to others. 29. http://srom.zgp.org/ 30. http://zork.net/~nick/srom/ -- Richard Bos For those without home the journey is endless