Re: Tuxmagazine

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Heya,

> > "The fact is, however, that KDE has the largest market share, and that
> > means the majority of our readers probably use KDE most, or use only
> > KDE."
>
> Is this true, though?
>
> Online polls consistently give KDE a 2:1 advantage over GNOME, but that 
> is over the relatively small customer base of early-adopter alpha geeks 
> (or whatever they're called) - the people who read free software news 
> sites and things like that.
>
> But it doesn't measure people using a free desktop at work, or in 
> telecenters, or atr school, who may not know they're using linux, and 
> certainly don't browse those sites that run online surveys on whether 
> you're using GNOME or KDE.
>
> I don't know if there's anything that we can do to change that image, or 
> redress the bar, or even start changing that trend in online polls to 
> get it closer to 60/40 or even 50/50.

Don't get too worked up about the quote that I had above - that was
really just to incite people, and get a discussion started. I'm not so
much worried about the polls that they get their data from. I'm more
worried about the content and quality of the GNOME articles - is this
something that we can have some sort of influence over?

> It is a little worrying that an online magazine is almost ignoring GNOME...
>
> > Still, we didn't do too badly with GIMP, Rhythmbox, Gaim and Totem
> > articles in there.
>
> Well, rhythmbox, gaim and totem got 1 page each... It's better than it 
> could have been, but still. It really does seem like they're a KDE magazine.

Why is that? Why are 99% of the Linux magazines out there KDE based?
Seems like there are important questions to answer for the marketing
group.

Glynn