Well according to Novell and their latest user base survey for OpenSUSE 10.2; it is a young, tech savvy male.

I found this survey the other day and thought it was interesting to see the diversity (or the lack thereof) of a Linux user. However I would say that a survey of OpenSUSE isn’t necessarily an accurate cross section of the Linux user. Simply because OpenSUSE is one of the more easy to use Linux distribution and therefore attracts a wider base of users than some of the more ‘hardcore’ distributions. And I would argue that there are more distributions that lean towards being ‘geek only’, than there are ‘average joe’ distributions (I don’t think there are too many newbies diving into Gentoo). So in truth the average Linux user is probably more of a geek than this survey lets on.

I used to use OpenSUSE myself, until I discovered Ubuntu and Debian style Linux in general. I just became really fond of apt-get.

Here is the link to the survey results on OpenSUSE.
http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/6/6c/
Opensuse_survey_102_data_final.pdf