Last month's Linux Distribution poll is now closed. We had a total of 192 votes. If the results are to be trusted, they were a bit of a surprise as Debian is the clear winner. I would have thought that Rocks or RHEL (CentOS) would be more popular. Notice that Oscar or Warewulf were not included as they are not full distributions.

Finally, while we are talking about polls and links, please check out our Cluster Links page. You may find it useful. And, let us know if any links are missing (leave a comment).

Name: Michael Creel

Comment: On your instant clusters page, you don't mention ParallelKnoppix. This is a Knoppix remaster that sets up a HPC cluster for you in about 5 minutes. By no means do I want to claim responsability for the popularity of Debian as a clustering platform, but I can tell you that PK gets a fair number of downloads. Debian is clearly not as visible as Red Hat based distros on the big iron clusters, but maybe it's being used on little clusters that aren't as visible publicly. Who knows?

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