On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:19:01 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> DR D1Rs, > > just a quick report on the activity of http://popcon.devuan.org six > weeks after it was put online. > > At the moment, it seems like we have just below 1300 active > submissions, and the number increases on average by about 20/30 new > submissions per day. > > If we consider that the popularity contest is *disabled* by default, > and that it is normally not enabled by admins on server installations, > then we can probably assume that those 1300 units represent between 5% > and 20% of the overall number of Devuan installations, which would > correspond to an estimate between 6K-25K Devuan machines in total. > > To put things in perspective: > > 1) the current popcon numbers for Debian (jessie + stretch) are in the > region of 150K, so a first rough conclusion is that Devuan has about > 1% of the use-base of Debian. > > 2) The total Debian user-base has remained almost stable in the last > four years. To grow at the same pace of Devuan, Debian should count > something like 2K-3K new installations per day, which would be about > one order of magnitude larger than the observed growth in Debian > popcon. > > In conclusion: these numbers have overall little significance > _per_se_. As with any statistics, we can speculate over them as > much or little as we want, but they clearly suggest that the Devuan > community is growing at a steady pace. This is yet another reason why > Devuan cannot afford to fail ;) ..we only have amd64, i386, arm64 and "armhf", what happens if we add x32, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 etc "in progress" architectures? (Other than me keeping hurd-i386 and converting my debian lan mirror to a devuan mirror) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
