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Who Are the Linux Desktop Users?

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
May 7, 2007

“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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