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[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 06:36 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> On 12/13/06, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "... according to Distrowatch, more people are downloading Ubuntu than
> > Red Hat and Novell products combined."

Odd, this one. I do not for a minute trust any such statistic. Do these
distros publish download numbers? Or is it based on accesses to the
download site (which do not have to result in actual downloads) from
disrowatch.com? Yeah, that is a secure bit of data collection.
I downloaded OpenSuse 10.2 via the metalink client. It downloaded bits
from 15 hosts at the same time (maintaining > 1MB per second!). Did any
or all of these get counted?  Of course not.

> Ah, the power of the press.  More people are slaves to M$ than all
> distros of Linux combined -- that doesn't make it good.

Still, Ubuntu must be better than MS Windows.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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