Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Ok, so the survey comes from the company that
didnt know BSD != Linux, but hey...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28,
2001--A new Evans Data Corporation study of Linux
Developers shows that a majority of developers
selected Red Hat Linux as the most likely
distribution for use with a web server or web
application server. According to the Linux
Developer Survey of over 300 Linux developers
interviewed in January of 2001, 77.2% chose Red
Hat Linux. This was 3.5 times more than the number
two choice of distributions.

Developers' second choices were SuSe Linux OS and
Mandrake, each with 21.8%. Following in third was
Caldera Open Linux at 21.4%, and FreeBSD was the
fourth choice with 20.4%.

The survey compared 15 different distributions
including Debian GNU Linux which garnered 17.7%,
Slackware with 12.5%, TurboLinux with 11.2%, and
Corel Linux OS with only 7.8%.

  Wide Open Coverage of Evans Data