hey yea Recoil... ease up on the patriotism :p
think of it as a more geographical distinction than a socio-political one... it's just a poll that is meant to be meaningful to the person who put it up, not to the people polling.

after all, if u notice, the poll is about CONTINENTS and not NATIONS... and UK is officially not considered a CONTINENT while Australia IS a CONTINENT and a NATION at the same time.

another example to calm your ruffled feelings:
my very own country, Singapore! too small to even be a city... yet we are a nation. well, it's asia i voted... i don't think Singapore would ever have the audacity to call itself a continent :D

thank you gui10.. you said that quite well..

i am just suprised not to see anyone from south america.. isn't linux suppose to be kind of big there.. or gaining popularity.

anyways.. next time i will include United States and then just continents, since i am from there... would that be fair.. nah, didn't think so.

my dog likes to bark at the red light from my mouse, so I think they are starting to make their move toward high tech.

Aw, come on Tricky, when you mentioned this poll back on the Taz's(?) distro poll, I thought we were going to get a country breakdown cross-referenced with distro preference so I could see if my theory of a Slackware Australia was accurate.

Honestly, Recoil, Tricky, I live in the American southeast that just thinks its a seperate nation, so I'm more than happy to be classified by continent.

Cheers,

Finegan

probably don't need one.. everyone from australia that i see on these boards has used or uses slackware...

Good point, I don't exactly need a color chart to know the sky is blue. I'm just wondering why, not the sky thing, but why Slack seems to rule Oz?

-Cheers,

Finegan

Thats because they all want to be me :p

I haven't used Slack (although I intend to eventually), and I'm from Australia......

I am surprised at that as well, I thought that Mandrake would be more popular here.

I know a fair few people who use Mandrake as their distribution of choice, and the $5 Linux CD's at the swapmeets are normally Mandrake or Redhat, from what I've seen.......

that is just my own observations however.....

The bloke who does the linux cd's at the markets around here has all the distro's apart from the latest suse, he even has the available BSD's and games/application cd's...including one with the complete collection of Flight Gear packages. All done with printed cd's and jewl case inserts.

I personally use Mandrake, with a custom kernel.

I have no real intention of using Slack.. nothing personal, but I think I will try to do a LFS setup on one of my virtual machines, just to play.

Brooklyn kid, New York

san antonio, Texas... hey isajera!!

much better than indiana, where everyone assumes you live in a cornfield.

Ontrose
second hut, third row in the
cornfield :p

yep.. lived in indianapolis for 4 years...

Yea, I just drove in from South Texas today, did not see a single tumbleweed.



:p