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Top ranking over a 7-day data span. Congratulations!

Yes, for the third day in a row.
Although going up is fairly common after a new release, it was nice to see Mageia 3 go over Mint, which has been the uncontested #1 for quite a long time. Of course, it is not that I have anything against Mint, but it is good to see Mageia go up.

To be honest, Mageia 3 was my most expected distro release, but I was hesitant to install it because I was quite satisfied with Mageia 2. However, after I installed it (x86_64 DVD) to my desktop and laptop, I must say BIG THANKS to all the Mageia team. The developers truly raised the quality bar: everything is working better than with Mageia 2 so far. I was a bit afraid of degraded performance (after reading so much about the woes of other distros), but I can say that Mageia has only improved since version 1.

Kudos, Mageia team!

Well, that doesn't say much. If you look for the last month, Debian is in second place above Mageia, as they also just released recently which generated quite some traffic.
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
If overall counters are rising longtime, that would be better than 1st place for some short timespan