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#16 Post by john_h »

I found this on the Netcraft site, which suggests there were around 1.2 million server installations for Debian as at December 2005 (and Debian was the fastest-growing distro at that point, too).

As for Ubuntu/Debian detection of hardware: I suspect a lot of the time this is just luck of the draw. One reason why I use Debian rather than Ubuntu is that, at the time I installed Debian, Ubuntu didn't pick up my network card out of the box, whereas Debian did. (Ubuntu is now a lot more successful at dealing with my PC's hardware, but it had its chance and it blew it ;)).
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