LinuxQuestions Choice Awards

bgeddy · 02-10-2010, 09:54 AM

Just to let you Slackers know - Slackware has come second in the LinuxQuestions Choice Awards in both Desktop Distribution of the year and Server Distribution of the year. Cool eh ? Some interesting other results too.

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-10-2010, 10:10 AM

Yeah, I saw that, and of course I expected Ubuntu to be the first, and Slackware reasonably high. So, yes, it's great that's it's 2nd.

brianL · 02-10-2010, 01:10 PM

I've commented on it here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post3857988

hitest · 02-10-2010, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by bgeddy

Just to let you Slackers know - Slackware has come second in the Linux Questions Choice Awards in both Desktop Distribution of the year and Server Distribution of the year. Cool eh ? Some interesting other results too.

Awesome! Great news, thanks, bgeddy.

Posting from a win 7 laptop.

samac · 02-10-2010, 01:44 PM

This is the second year running that Slackware has come second in two categories, I smell the 2,2,2 conspiracy coming on.

samac

Ilgar · 02-10-2010, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bgeddy

Just to let you Slackers know - Slackware has come second in the Linux Questions Choice Awards in both Desktop Distribution of the year and Server Distribution of the year. Cool eh ? Some interesting other results too.

LQ.org is our territory, isn't it

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The forum here is the (semi?)official support forum for Slackware, unlike many other major distributions. That may explain the vocality of Slack users here.

bgeddy · 02-10-2010, 02:52 PM

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LQ.org is our territory, isn't it .

.. this is all our turf ... (Apologies to Cyrus - The Warriors).

XavierP · 02-10-2010, 04:09 PM

I have fixed the title of the post. The space between "Linux" and "Questions" was making my cerebral cortex itch.

And as to the poll, it's a testament to the hard work of the team and also to the users that such a supposedly niche and user unfriendly distro is so regularly popular.

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-11-2010, 11:13 AM

I know some people would argue that the poll is biased because this is the main Slackware forum, while the other distros have their own forums (usually). But, where is a poll going to give anywhere near as accurate results ? Well, maybe distrowatch, but that's not a poll, and page hits are not very reliable, what if it's some bot... they should have downloads per day, not hits per day. Certainly any poll posted in the individual distro forums would be highly inaccurate.