After my previous blog about openSUSE News numbers I became curious and installed StatPress. Of course the site is mostly visited by SUSE Linux users (~53%), followed by just under 30% MS Windows users (XP outnumbers Vista by factor 7). But the positive surprise is that 40.4% use Konqueror to visit the site beating all Firefox versions by 0.3% (Internet Explorer 6+7 sum up to 12%). An outstanding number: 96% of the visitors use Google as their search engine. Among the most popular search terms are "opensuse 11[.0]" and "kde 4". 
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"followed by just under 30%
"followed by just under 30% MS Windows"!! it is cool, very great news.
Cool... That should be
Cool... That should be another sign to the Novell executives how OpenSuse depends on and thrives with KDE rather than Gnome. I guess the message won't land, again
Aaah well. If they don't get it in time to fully take advantage of what KDE 4 is going to bring, some other distro will take over. Or, of course, opensuse will take the freedom they have to make decisions separate from Novell and go the right direction themselves.
Re: Cool... That should be
I don't think that Novell "needs to get a message" currently. And of course openSUSE decisions will differ from the ones for SLED, it can include more than one KDE version and be adventurous when deciding about when to switch to KDE4 as default KDE desktop.
What Message?
What message are you referring to? GNOME is not the default desktop environment on openSUSE; it offers a pretty excellent offering of both (which is a pretty rare thing in distributions), though the majority of openSUSE users do in fact use KDE.
What do you mean about take advantage of KDE 4? Everything up until now has quite clearly shown that it's set its gears full throttle onto KDE4 adoption: it announced years ago that it would be an early adopter of KDE4; it was one of the first distributions to include some KDE4 packages; it builds and maintains more regular (i.e. every few days) and quality KDE4 packages than anyone else; and there has been, for a long time, a regularly updated KDE4 openSUSE live CD. Both Novell and openSUSE are eagerly looking ahead to KDE4, and its adoption is pretty high on the task list.