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A friend sent me this picture today of a technician at work in Haiti. It looks like they were missing the proper equipment to get him up there, but they found a creative solution.

Just out of curiosity, I checked out Google Trends to compare some of the most popular Linux distributions, based on distrowatch.com. My findings were rather interesting: a stagnant or slightly downward slope for most popular distributions except for Ubuntu which has a very fast growth.

Then I decided to compare Ubuntu to the other popular operating systems: Windows and Mac OS X.

Some interesting observations:

1) Linux popularity seems to be decreasing, based on the distros downward trends and the fact that the term linux itself is going down. However, Ubuntu is gaining popularity really fast.

2) Windows is by far the most popular operating systems, but it’s popularity is decreasing while Mac OS X and Ubuntu are gaining steam.

Of course, this should be taken with a grain of salt because this is far from a scientific study, but like we say back home, there is never smoke without a fire.