We (the Anchorage Linux Users Group) are having our annual installfest.
Since we have limited space and etc., the topic of which distros to
provide came up. I was amazed when, after we had agreed to use the top
3, the following stats were cited:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, James Bagley Jr. wrote:
> and the winners are:
>
> http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.html
> 100600 registrations entered 101279 values
> distribution Count Percent
>
> *Debian 19606 19.49%
>
> Mandrake 12269 12.20%
>
> *Red Hat 28688 28.52%
>
> S.u.S.E 8159 8.11%
>
> *Slackware 22806 22.67%
>
> Others 7999 7.95%
>
> Of course 47.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot, so use this or
> not as you see fit. Maybe we should just take a poll from the people that
> show up wednessday?
That's precisely what needs to happen. As the AK manager for the Linux
Counter, I can tell you that the demographic makeup up here for the
various
distributions are not the same as they are in the lower 48.
We need the biggest pool of manpower to tap into for assistance with the
installfest, which means we need to plan according to local resources.
I think I can persuade them to use Mandrake Linux as one anyway; is
there someone at Mandrakesoft who could help with some material?
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