Online CD, DVD and USB media sales

“In a recent issue of DistroWatch Weekly we took a brief look at
the number of CDs, DVDs and USB Flash drives sold through the
OSDisc.com affiliate program run by DistroWatch. In response to the
article, Ramsey Brenner, the founder of OSDisc.com, was kind enough
to offer us more data on the sales of the media containing one of
the free operating systems available on the market. For obvious
reasons, he declined to give away the total number of media sold,
but the percentage of each distribution sold should be able to
rekindle some of the battles over distro popularity that many
DistroWatch readers like to engage in the comments section.

“So without further ado, here is a table listing the top 50
distributions sold by OSDisc.com in 2009. The third column
represents the percentage of the total number of CDs, DVDs and USB
Flash drives sold during the year. Feel free to draw your own
conclusions…”

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