Had a play with Google trends just now, and saw a strange thing. Linux has been slowly declining over the last few years , but Ubuntu is growing.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux...ate=all&sort=0

Could it be that people see Ubuntu synonymous with Linux?

My fave distro Open SuSE seems to be on the decline
Interesting to see Maemo making a dent in the last months.

Looks like you debs are winning.

Mike C