Based on my limited research Debian runs on a significant portion of Internet web servers (more than Fedora and CentOS combined).<br><br>From <a href="http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/05/strong_growth_for_debian.html">
Strong growth for Debian</a> (Netcraft, December 2005):<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">&quot;Debian is currently the fastest growing Linux distribution for web
servers, with more than 1.2 million active sites in December. Debian
3.1 was declared stable in July and it appears that both the
anticipation of this release becoming stable, and the release itself,
have generated new interest in Debian, after some years where it had
lagged behind its more active rivals. This growth is particularly
noticeable at some of the larger central European hosting locations,
including Komplex, Lycos Europe, Proxad and Deutsche Telecom.&quot;<br></div><br>In this survey Debian had 25% share. Fedora: 16%, CentOS: 1%.<br><br>However, this survey is a little over a year old. I am certainly interested in seeing research that shows Debian is not this dominate.
<br><br>Larry<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Khalid Baheyeldin</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div><div>However, Debian is less widely in hosting environments as opposed to Red Hat and its
<br>derivatives (CentOS, Fedora).<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Larry Cannell<br><a href="mailto:larry@cannell.org">larry@cannell.org</a>