> > Here's another not too reliable breakdown of a popular question. > > wow, cool page... i love graphs and numbers. thanks for sharing =)) > > > One interesting thing here is that this also lists the version that people > > are running. > > indeed... interesting to see how ~25% of those using KDE on gentoo are > tracking the RCs. probably indicative of the people that gentoo atracts: > advanced users who like bleeding edge stuff.
Depending how people have setup portage, they'll get those releases immediately, when they update their system. Similar to setting up apt get to pull from woody. > > also interesting is that ~30% of them don't run KDE or GNOME... i wonder how > many use a pure CLI env and which WMs are popular among those who do run X. Count me in for 3 CLIs. None of my Gentoo boxes run X. I'm also not running the Stats software, so I'm not in those lists. > > I wouldn't call it extremely accurate, afterall, it's a sample size of > > about 1000 people, but it's another rough guide. > > a sample size of 1000 is quite significant statistically, but the type of > subjects in the sample is what probably counts here... gentoo isn't a distro > for newbies, and so most of those people are power users (also indicated by > the high% of people tracking devel releases). That may affect the release they choose, but not the KDE vs Gnome question. > just from personal experience with people i know who run gentoo i'd say that > the average gentoo user tends to be an above average power user. I run Gentoo because it gives me applications that (at the time) weren't available from Red Hat or other distros that I originally checked. Plus, I much prefer it's "install nothing, and add what you need" install to the usual "people probably want this, so throw it in" install. I'll also note that RC2 comes with some of the bigger packages (X, Gnome, KDE, Open Office, etc) precompiled. You still need to compile small stuff, but not much. Combined with a stage 3 install (which they recommend, actually) the biggest thing you'll need to compile is the kernel itself. Kev.
