[Ilugc] Re: which Linux distros are dying?

[Rahul Sundaram]

sriram wrote:
> Masatran, R. Deepak <masatran at ...> writes:
> 
>> * Ashok Gautham J. <ashokgautham at ...> 2008-07-03
>>> Also Red Hat and Fedora are well established. IIT uses RHEL, Fedora and
>>> Debian.. It is unlikely to switch to Ubuntu et al.
>> IIT appears to be moving towards Debian...The DCF of my department (computer
>> science) shifted all desktops from Suse to Debian Etch recently. My lab
>> (RISE) shifted all desktops from RHEL/Fedora to Debian Lenny recently.
> 
> if we go by the traffic at the iitm ftp server (which has ubuntu, debian, fedora
> and centos mirrors), ubuntu is king. centos, debian and fedora place a distant
> second. also, the computer centre at iitm is likely to stick with rhel because
> of support issues.

Does Fedora have the content updated yet? I don't see much in

http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/fedora/releases/9/

It is unlikely you will get any traffic without the latest content. All 
I see is the netboot iso.

Rahul