On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Christoph Wickert < [email protected]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 14.10.2009, 17:35 +0200 schrieb Gregory Zysk: > > > There is a problem with measuring downloads though, it does not give > > us a realistic number of how many people actually use Fedora. > > We do have smolt data for that: > http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/static/stats/stats.html > > > It goes for the same ranking system on > > http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity. These popularity > > rankings are just based off of downloads and just give us data to > > reflect just that: downloads. > > And you think distrowatch is more representative? I don't think so. > >>> It is representative for downloads, or at least some of them. > > Distrowatch is counting visitors by user agent strings. Ask yourself: > Who visits distrowatch? >>>I did!! That is how I cam to using Fedora. That is how everyone I know has referred me to and the same way they came to using FOSS. > Likely somebody who is looking for a new distro > to try. So are these people really happy with their distro or even > convinced of it? >>>This is accomplished by separate surveys or sampling techniques. > This is something the numbers cannot show. > >>>Once a methodology and research design is set in place. These numbers will show exactly what you have created them to be. > > By counting uniqe visits, you wont get numbers of OS installations or > users, because you don't know how often people visit that site. There > are people who say the number of Fedora installs is actually larger than > the number of Ubuntu installations, but quite a lot of them are servers > running in data centers [1]. They will never show up at distrowatch > because servers usually don't visit that site. ;) > >>>This from an objective point of view is just opinion. You ask an Ubuntu user and they will say they have the most. You ask a person who works for microsoft who has the best OS? Don't be surprised if they say: microsoft. > > Regards, > Christoph > > [1] Just look at the high number of virtual machines in smolt. > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Gregory Zysk https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Gmzysk Fingerprint: 4643 E1AE 1AAD 85D4 6276 7C42 3591 A189 B8BF 04D6
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