1) Which is your favourite Linux Distro?
*Debian 9 (22.0%)
*Mandrake 8 (19.5%)
*Suse 0 (0.0%)
*Caldera 0 (0.0%)
*Turbo 0 (0.0%)
*Gentoo 4 (9.8%)
*Red Hat Enterprise 8 (19.5%)
*Fedora 6 (14.6%)
*Other 6 (14.6%)
The Others were
*Slackware 2
*Red Hat Linux (<9.0) 3
*Xandros 1
2) Which distro are you currently using?
*Debian 4 (6.3%)
*Fedora 14 (22.2%)
*Red Hat Enteprise 11 (17.5%)
*Knoppix 8 (12.7%)
*Gentoo 4 (6.3%)
*Suse 3 (4.8%)
*Mandrake 10 (15.9%)
*Caldera 0 (0.0%)
*Corel 0 (0.0%)
*Turbo 0 (0.0%)
*Yello Dog 0 (0.0%)
*Other 9 (14.3%)
The Others were
*Red Hat Linux (<9.0) 4
*Slackware 3
*Xandros 1
*WhiteBox 1
3) Do you multi boot? If So, what are the combinations?
*Windows98 / Linux 7 (17.1%)
*WindowsME / Linux 1 (2.4%)
*WindowsXP / Linux 18 (43.9%)
*WindowsNT / Linux 0 (0.0%)
*Windows2000 / Linux 3 (7.3%)
*Solaris / Linux 0 (0.0%)
*No, I don't have a dual boot system 8 (19.5%)
*Other 4 (9.8%)
The Other combinations were
*Win2K / Linux / BSD 1
*fedore core 2 +freebsd+windows2000+xandros 1
*gentoo/fc2/suse/whitebox/solaris10ea 1
*WindowsXP/2k3/Linux 1
4) How do you use Linux as?
*Personal Desktop 30 (31.9%)
*Server 17 (18.1%)
*Workstation 9 (9.6%)
*Develpoment 24 (25.5%)
*Educational Purpose 13 (13.8%)
*Other 1 (1.1%)
The Other was,
*Internet sharing 1
5) Which is you prefered Desktop Environment in Linux?
*GNOME 18 (39.1%)
*KDE 20 (43.5%)
*XPDE 0 (0.0%)
*Other 8 (17.4%)
The Others were,
*XFCE 3
*FluxBox 1
*IceWM 1
*OpenBox 1
*TWM,MWM 1
*Window Maker 1
6) Which kind of Linux User you are?
*Novice 9 (22.0%)
*Expert 8 (19.5%)
*Programmer 17 (41.5%)
*Hobbyist 6 (14.6%)
*Other 1 (2.4%)
The Other was an Intermediate
Thanks for the overwhelming response.
Total no. of responses = 41
Summary:
Debian is the favourite Linux Distro among the ILUG-Chennai Members.
Fedora is the mostly used Linux Distro multi-booting with XP.
And most of the members are programmers who use their Linux for
development with KDE being the prefered Desktop Environment.
-- End of Survey Result
Wishing all the ILUG-Chennai Members a Happy Diwali.
Long Live Linux - Long Live GNU
V.Vishnu
