I guess the disproportionate ratio between Ubuntu and Debian is because you provide the package for Ubuntu. I have never been able to compile FEniCS for Debian by simply running the script provided.
On 29 January 2014 11:37, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Here are the results from the FEniCS user survey: > > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bcs2Jwv9pZ8J57rLIUjZBj8BD-_tcUiU11NGX9VkWAs/viewanalytics > > In short, we have 80% GNU/Linux, 15% Mac and 5% Win, which seems like > reasonable figures. There are also some interesting comments at the > bottom. > > Based on these numbers and our web logs for 2013 (or more correctly, > one year back from today), I have calculated some approximate download > numbers. These are based on finding unique IP addresses / week for > downloads of Mac and Win binaries. > > Summary (mac, win, tot_mac, tot_win, tot) > Week: 50.44 63.38 336.266666667 1056.33333333 696.3 > Month: 218.573333333 274.646666667 1457.15555556 4577.44444444 3017.3 > Year: 2622.88 3295.76 17485.8666667 54929.3333333 36207.6 > > Exrapolation of Mac downloads gives 17000 downloads / year, whereas > extrapolation of Win downloads gives 55000 downloads / year. The truth > is likely somewhere in between. The lower figure for Mac is very > reasonable since Mac users can also get FEniCS through other sources > (building from source and now Macports). Then there's also the issue > that these figures are based on a fairly small number of responses to > the survey. > > 5 years ago, when we could track all downloads (before Debian/Ubuntu > binaries) we had on the order of 1000 downloads / month, so 50,000 > downloads / year is not an unreasonable figure. > > Then there's the question how downloads relate to users. Is there a > rule of thumb for estimating the number of users based on downloads? > > -- > Anders > _______________________________________________ > fenics mailing list > [email protected] > http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics >
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