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Who Are the Linux Desktop Users?
May 7, 2007, 00 :45 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (9740 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

"A typical Linux desktop user is a guy in his twenties who's computer savvy but may very well not be an IT professional. Those are some of the conclusions you can draw from the just-released openSUSE survey results.

"The survey, published by OpenSUSE.org (PDF download), was run for almost three months, and more than 27,000 users participated in it. Novell and the openSUSE group will be using the results to make openSUSE, and its commercial big brother SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) better.

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
yeah that sounds exactly like me. Mid 20 ...   Typical Linux User   
Beorn E Morder
May 7, 2007, 03:54:40
 
The title should be: Who are the SUSE Li ...   Wrong title   
Rick
May 7, 2007, 06:55:20
 
I am writing this from my laptop at work ...   Typical?   
GreyGeek
May 7, 2007, 12:55:44
 
..And from another, who is 65++ of age,  ...   Another "Typical"???   
Hugh Johnson
May 7, 2007, 13:53:16
 
Let's see... our house:  I use Linux ...   Our house is atypical   
David F. Skoll
May 7, 2007, 14:10:27
 
... among the exceptions, that is.  I am ...   Count me in ...   
Roger Moore
May 7, 2007, 14:43:56
 
I am 63 years old, started using RedHat  ...   Another Suse non-user.   
M. Miyojim
May 7, 2007, 16:49:08
 
I run Debian on all my systems, except m ...   Almost there   
Jude Nelson
May 7, 2007, 17:09:14
 
54, on Mandrake/iva since 1999.Carlos Ce ...   Anotther exception...   
Carlos Cesar
May 8, 2007, 01:31:18
 
> I am a Systems Administrator and not a ...   Re: Wrong title   
blackhole
May 8, 2007, 04:02:47
 
I am 57 and have been using Linux since  ...   Non-Typicals?   
jimgo
May 8, 2007, 11:31:51
 
I'm 17, I use Ubuntu on all of my PC ...   Linux != Suse   
CalcProgrammer1
May 14, 2007, 15:00:57
 
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