Netcraft: Slight Linux Market Share Loss for Red Hat

"Red Hat remains the leading Linux distribution in use on the Internet, experiencing slight market share erosion in the first six months of 2004, but still showing a healthy net gain of sites under its new licensing structure. Debian and SuSE show market share gains among Linux distributions detected by our Hosting Provider Switching Analysis, while Gentoo has the fastest percentage growth rate.

"The gains by Debian, SuSE and Gentoo have been helped by the continued growth of the hosting market in Europe, where these distributions have their largest users..."

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