Slackware is king!
[insert tongue into cheek] At the recent KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California, members of the open source community at large were invited to attend to partake in the celebrations surrounding KDE 4.0.0's release. There were many attendees from around the world, but the real surprise came when we counted those that were representing the distros.

You see, Slackware accounted for half of all the distro people at the event. Since this event was fairly well attended, one can safely assume that this ratio is actually an accurate representation on reality, and that Slackware is once again rising to reign supreme as the most popular linux distro currently being produced.

They credit their no-nonsense, just get the work done attitude to their recent rise to the top, as well as their continual support of KDE, which earns them numerous endorsements from the thousands of KDE developers that are running Slackware in very public positions, and totally ignore the commercial distributions and their fancy installers and package manager :P

Well, kidding aside (Slackware doesn't really have 50% of all linux users out there), it was nice to see such a large turnout from the Slackware community (I think there were 7 people there, including fearless leader, Patrick Volkerding). It is interesting to note that these folks are all from North America, except for Fred, which means that for many of them, this was their first interaction with the KDE community. This stresses even more the importance of having KDE events in places other than Europe, as there are people that simply will not make that flight.

And to add to the compliment of their attendance in droves, Patrick even drove there from Minnesota! To put that into perspective for you Europeans, that's about 15 hours on the road and a lot of energy drinks.

Anyway, congrats to the Slackware team for showing up all the well-funded distros with the grass-roots effort. Cheers.