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Ubuntu, The Most Popular Linux Operating System Ubuntu, The Most Popular Linux Operating System
 
A report announced by the Open Source Census at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo reveals some interesting facts about various open source projects.

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Thursday, August 07, 2008:  The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, has identified more than 275,000 open source installations on more than 2,000 machines. While Firefox has been ranked as the most installed open source project, Zlib, Xerces, Xalan and Wget are the second, third, fourth and fifth, respectively. Participants span a wide variety of company sizes, geographies and industries.
The Open Source Census has revealed some interesting facts and found data that is contrary to common held ideas regarding the popularity of various open source projects.

Ubuntu (45 per cent) and Debian (14 per cent) are the most used Linux distributions. More than half of the open source software found has been on Windows machines, and the number of unique installed open source packages ranged from 22-62 per machine.

Perl (45 per cent) is the most common open source development language while Ruby, PHP and Python have 29 per cent share. Hsqldb (45 per cent) is the most common database, because it is bundled as the default DB with many open source software components; MySQL (27 per cent) is twice as common as Postgres (12 per cent). And more than 65 per cent of participants are located outside of the United States.

This is a clear indication of increasing adoption of GNU/Linux and Free Software.

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