“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…”