If I may add my 2 cents...
Someone here was "wishing" that TC would come up to the top ten...and another asked what top ten? So, the answer was Distrowatch.
Actually, Distrowatch's "list" is just a farce, and it doesn't give a real picture of the Linux World at all! There is a comment on this "list" in their comments section as below...
"When the distro gets in the DWW list and the developers keep on sending new releases with slight changes, they keep the readers of DWW reminded of their distro, just like an ad in the TV. Some developers take quite a time to send in new releases lose TV-advert like remembrance, and the position of the DWW list falls.
Strangely, there is a distro named Moblin still hanging on the 98th position, while that distro is not there even in Moblin’s own website! It had been merged into MeeGo and now Meego is looking to release 1.2 version. MeeGo is in the 37th position. How come a non-active distro is still hanging in at any position of the DWW list?
Are we getting a real look of the Linux distro world by looking at the DWW list is the question?
1st in the list has 2104 hits, while the 5th has only 1154 hits, meaning practically 50% less!
The 10th in the list has only 661 hits, which means only ~31% from the 1st one.
The 50th in the list has only 173 hits, which is just 8,2%!
The 75th on the list has only 118 hits, which gives 5.6%!
The 100th has only 100 hits, which is 4.7% from the 1st!
Now, there is a question; is this DWW distro list is correct and show how the Linux world look like, or quite wrong?
What say you, readers?"
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I thought about it for a while too, and it is correct, the Distrowatch "list" is a farce.
If you look at the its Home Page, it is only full of other developers release notes (or parts of them)
I have a feeling that people, who use Tiny Core, Puppy Linux, Austrumi, Slitaz, etc don't even look at the Disytrowatch "list" at all, for they are quite busy with these extraordinary Operating Systems!
Sorry, if this is off point...