Mike; The only glitch in the ointment is that roughly 800f the Linux Journal survey respondants were from Germany, which is where SuSE originates from, and where SuSE is number one (as it is in all of Europe if memory serves). It's number one in my book also, however! Lawrence Sayre Mike Gorsuch wrote:

That is absolutely incredible. I would have thought it would have been the other way around (just because I hear everyone talk so good about Redhat all the time). Way to go SuSE

Mike

On 16-Jan-99 Rick Chandler wrote:

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Anyone seen the new Linux Journal lately? Suse won favorite distrobution with RedHat following second. Very cool.

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Steve Crane wrote:

Lawrence Sayre wrote:

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The only glitch in the ointment is that roughly 800f the Linux Journal survey respondants were from Germany, which is where SuSE originates from, and where SuSE is number one (as it is in all of Europe if memory serves). It's number one in my book also, however!

I don't see that the percentage of German respondents is all that relevant. LJ is a US magazine and so US readers had just as much, if not more opportunity to respond than anyone in other countries. The fact that more Germans responded only tells me that they may be more passionate about their distribution than others are.

I posted this opinion to my local LUG's (GLUG in Johannesburg, South Africa) list earlier this week and someone replied that if US citizens are often too apathetic to vote for their president for the next few years it's a bit much to expect them to vote for an OS.

Well, from one non-apathetic U.S. citizen, and SuSE user, let me say that the fact that the respondents were %80 Deutsche is of significance given that it is the way products sell and are percieved in the US which will have some of the biggest influence on the ultimate success of a product (in the US!). (Like it or not) It just seems that in light of Netscape and Intel sinking money into RedHat (is this true?!) and the wider availibility of the package at bookstores, etc. , that a majority German response in favor of SuSE (which I love) is unfortunately, I think. not too indicative of future movement. That said. . . .Go SuSE !!! chris - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>