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Fedora Linux grows 122.4% in 6 months on Linux Web hosting market
NetCraft points out Fedora's winning run as far as leading distribution for the Web hosting market. The company surveyed the number of active sites in September 2004 and March 2005, noticing 122.
NetCraft points out Fedora's winning run as far as leading distribution for the Web hosting market. The company surveyed the number of active sites in September 2004 and March 2005, noticing 122.4% growth for the RedHat-sponsored Linux operating system. Surprisingly at the same time, RedHat's flagship OS product, RedHat Enterprise Linux, slipped by 1.2%.
| Distribution | Active sites Sep 2004 | Active sites Mar 2005 | Growth Rate |
| RedHat | 1630382 | 1610427 | -1.2% |
| Debian | 693941 | 791086 | 14.0% |
| Cobalt | 619960 | 516963 | -16.6% |
| SuSE | 399031 | 442908 | 11.0% |
| Fedora | 182421 | 405682 | 122.4% |
| Mandrake | 62972 | 73459 | 16.7% |
| Gentoo | 43525 | 63160 | 45.1% |