I am wondering, how many people use openSUSE on a Server(s), just Desktop(s) or Server(s) and Desktop(s).
Workstations, Netbooks, etc. should count as Desktop.
Feel free to detail what kind of server you are running (web, file, etc.), if you want.
Hundreds of servers (and then a few hundred more virtualized), some workstations.
One laptop installation and one server.
What are they used for (if I may ask)? Datafarm? Webservers? File/Identity servers?
Various purposes including web services, development (Linux and Java software development), file servers, media transcoding and broadcasting (these require a lot of juice) and various other tasks.
As home: two desktops, one laptop and two local servers
At work: 30 openSUSE servers
100% of my both computers runs openSUSE rotfl!
Are these servers using openSUSE, SLES or a mixture?
I know there is very little difference between openSUSE and SLE*, but I want to try and focus on the community-backed openSUSE for this poll.
All of them run openSUSE.
I use openSUSE as a desktop. Since I only have one computer, openSUSE is all I use. I haven’t owned Windows in years.
You might be interested in this URL:
Linux Counter: Home Page
It contains statistics of how many people use which distro in which countries and also details like Desktop/Server usage, average uptime, etc.
wow! the last option has a vote??.
thats unexpected
Shrug. Some people don’t necessarily use the distribution but are interested in reading the forums to see how things are progressing.
Interesting, I’ll have to sort through it! Wonder if they offer it in a comma- or tab- delimited database table for building custom reports?
That’s sorta where I fall in right now. I don’t use openSUSE as my primary system but have it installed on my temporary testing box.
Last night I was having issues with the openSUSE that was installed; network was just not working. So I tried the Ubuntu LiveCD, and while network worked, my scanner (xSane) did not. So I installed openSUSE 11.1 from a KDE LiveCD (KDE 11.1) and had everything working (out of the box)!
I like what I’ve seen so far.
Just an observation, I’m not really good in this math stuff and such as but the total percent of this poll looks like weird. 
Its a multiple choice seems the maths is based on the voters/poll me thinks that is a forum software bug.
The percentage is the number of times something is selected divided by the number of people who voted
Desktop : 28/30 = .9333 = 93.33%
Server : 6/30 = .2 = 20%
None: 1/30 = 0.0333 = 3.33%
I use openSUSE as desktop OS on my PC and soon when I buy a laptop maybe I’ll install it there. Or Mandriva-haven’t decided:D
Multiple selection must be allowed, in the other case the numbers are still incorrent.
Well it depends on your definition of server, if you consider desktop hardware functioning as a server then yes I’m using openSUSE on the laptop/desktop/server.
My server is an AMD Athlon 1640-LE (energy efficient CPU) on an AMD 780G chipset based motherboard. So that’s pretty basic desktop hardware, it functions as a Fileserver (both NFS and Samba), printserver (CUPS and Samba), SVN server and LAMP webserver although not receiving any visitors besides me as I’m using it for testing.
If I ever get bored enough I might set it up to a whatever-its-called server that receives the logs from my router… as I spotted the option to do so in my routers webinterface and saw a matching named package in the repositories.