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[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 13:03 +0000, ded wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 01:25:27PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> 
> I, like you, don't trust such statistics. It would be interesting to
> know what formula they use to reach these figures. Linux counter used
> to have a (might still, I don't know) count of registered machines and
> what they were running, but of course someone had to participate in linux
> counter to register their machines...so if anything that would only show
> what the majority of people participating were running.
> 
> Still, I fail to see what the big deal is about what most people are
> using/downloading as we all use whatever we feel comfortable with or
> whatever our companies force us to use.

Of course, maybe one distro needed to be downloaded so many times to
correct problems that the other distros don't have. Or the download
source fails requiring multip re-starts. These would also inflate
downloads. How about a 5-cd set that requires 5 downloads, vs. one that
has one DVD?

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Roger Oberholtzer

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