During the last 30 days, Puppy ranks 15th out of the top 100 downloads of Linux and BSD distros as rated by DISTROWATCH http://distrowatch.com/ for the last 30 days.
Please note the excellent distributions that Puppy dished during the last 30 days. For example, the latest release of KANOTIX is of course excellent; the latest variants of SLAX are all excellent; the latest release of FreeBSD seems to be a flat-out winner.
Permit me to observe the obvious: Puppy has come from nowhere to suddenly achieve a place of prominence because Puppy works, Puppy efficiently meets peoples' needs, Puppy is very tiny for a full-service distro, and tiny little Puppy is so darn cute.
Without further ado, here is the Distrowatch 30-day ranking:
Rank Distribution H.P.D*
1 Ubuntu 2643
2 Fedora 1593
3 Mandriva 1456
4 MEPIS 1338
5 Debian 1231
6 SUSE 1038
7 KNOPPIX 847
8 Gentoo 595
9 Damn Small 592
10 Slackware 503
11 Xandros 479
12 PC-BSD 430
13 CentOS 423
14 Vector 416
15 Puppy 398
16 KANOTIX 398
17 SLAX 393
18 PCLinuxOS 391
19 aLinux 376
20 FreeBSD 352
21 Libranet 346
22 Kubuntu 344
23 Minislack 248
24 Linspire 248
25 FoX Desktop 223
26 Red Hat 217
27 Arch 210
28 GoboLinux 207
29 OpenBSD 205
30 Zen 194
31 Vidalinux 186
32 Mediainlinux 177
33 Lunar 171
34 Yoper 159
35 WHoppix 159
36 Kurumin 149
37 Symphony 144
38 GeeXboX 139
39 StartCom 134
40 ClarkConnect 130
41 Foresight 126
42 SME Server 121
43 IPCop 119
44 Ark 117
45 Monoppix 114
46 Feather 114
47 Berry 111
48 Solaris 109
49 ParallelKnoppix 108
50 White Box 106
51 Progeny 101
52 Devil 100
53 Kate OS 99
54 BIG LINUX 96
55 Frugalware 95
56 CRUX 92
57 Gnoppix 90
58 Trustix 87
59 rpath 86
60 PHLAK 86
61 PaiPix 86
62 m0n0wall 86
63 INSERT 86
64 Scientific 85
65 Vine 81
66 Yellow Dog 80
67 AUSTRUMI 79
68 Lycoris 74
69 Turbolinux 72
70 Impi 72
71 T2 70
72 LFS 70
73 BeatrIX 70
74 ASLinux 70
75 FreeSBIE 69
76 Knoppix STD 68
77 Novell 66
78 stresslinux 65
79 MoviX 65
80 Aurox 65
81 ROCK 64
82 Mandows 64
83 Auditor 64
84 Morphix 63
85 MoLinux 62
86 NetBSD 61
87 SmoothWall 59
88 AGNULA 57
89 Sun JDS 56
90 LiveCD Router 56
91 Lineox 56
92 DragonFly 56
93 Linux4all 53
94 redWall 53
95 B2D 52
96 Rocks Cluster 51
97 dyne:bolic 51
98 Astaro 50
99 ASPLinux 49
100 ADIOS 46
