The Most Popular Linux Desktop? The Numbers Might Surprise You

"What Linux desktop is most popular? Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Slackware, or another distro?

"Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes that he thinks it's Xandros. Yes, that's an unexpected result, but he has a point--Xandros is the distro shipped on the Eee PC, and by SJVN's count, they’ve pumped out about 1.1 million Eee PCs and are still going strong.

"Now, by my count, that puts Xandros in about 4th place, but closing rapidly..."

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