On 05/22/2012 08:10 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 05/22/2012 06:57 PM, Digimer wrote: >> On 05/22/2012 07:16 PM, Muhammad A. Fatahna wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Now, i still analyse about CentOS user, how to know the amount of >>> centos users around the world that can be get a result CentOS >>> percentage of all distributions. >>> thank you very much >> There is no central recording of who uses what distributions. For this >> reason, accurate numbers are impossible to get. Some projects try to >> track by asking people to volunteer their usage info, but these are >> hardly scientific and are likely highly inaccurate. >> >> The best you can say is that CentOS is extremely popular and is one of >> the most commonly used distribution in the server world. Whether it is >> more or less popular than Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux >> proper... No one can really say. > > Well, these guys measure specifically webserver usage on the top websites: > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/os-linux > > We were #1, now we are #2 behind Debian. > > BUT ... this does not show cpanel and plesk installs as they us custom > httpd that does not identify them as CentOS. > > It is also web servers and does not include other things in the enterprise. This also does not count BGP routers, appliances, firewalls, many mail servers, etc. It's a sample of web-facing web servers only. I know in the shop I used to work at, only a fraction of our CentOS servers were facing the web at all, and only a couple of those ran apache. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com