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Sydney Morning Herald: Debian is Fastest Growing Linux Distribution

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 29, 2004

“The free Linux distribution, Debian GNU/Linux, has become the
fastest growing distribution in the period from July last year when
measured by counting active sites which contain the name of a Linux
distribution in the Apache Server header.

“Data from the network security company, Netcraft, showed that
Debian was noticed on 355,469 active sites in July; in January this
had increased to 442,572, an increase of nearly 25 percent…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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