Popularity check: Windows XP or Linux redhat? Which is the best?

Depend on how you define 'best'. Both operating system properly configured are very stable and can provide a great environment. For a personal computer, if you're not a programmer or a person with a lot of knowledge of computer and doesn't have many hours a day to script your task, I would recommend Windows XP.

For a passionate programmer, for a web (or others kinds) of server, for someone who is curious about computer in general and have the time to learn it I would recommend Linux. I don't think redhat is better than others Linux distribution and many of them are free, you can download them and try it. If you only have use version of Windows and want to learn more, I would definitively recommend to download some version of Linux, Free BSD and others free operating system, they can teach you a lot.

I prefer Windows XP. It's simple, straightforward and I know where everything is.

The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular? To try to answer these questions, we have looked at data from Google with the highly useful Insights for Search, which gave us a number of interesting and often surprising results.

Aside from just looking at Linux itself, we have included eight common Linux distributions in this survey: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, Slackware and Gentoo. To have a way to judge popularity, we have looked at where a specific search term is most popular, i.e. How likely it is for someone in a region (country or state) to search for that specific term, for example “Linux” or “Ubuntu”.

Google calls this “regional interest”. If a high proportion of the searches in a country are for the term “Linux”, this should also indicate that Linux is popular in that country, or at least that there is a high interest in Linux. On a global level, the interest in Linux seems to be the strongest in India, Cuba and Russia, followed by the Czech Republic and Indonesia (and Bangladesh, which has the same regional interest level as Indonesia).

The first Western country when looking at regional popularity is Germany which is the 10th country in regards to search popularity for Linux. In the United States, interest appears significantly stronger in Utah and California than the rest of the country. California’s high position is understandable, considering it is the home of Silicon Valley, but we are not sure why the interest for Linux is even higher in Utah.

Perhaps some of our readers might shed some light on this? You can dig deeper into Google’s search statistics for Linux here. As mentioned in the introduction, we looked at eight common distributions: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, Slackware and Gentoo.

Ubuntu is most popular in Italy and Cuba.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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