On Aug 1, 11:22 am, Brian Merrill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone at Sun even use Linux as
> their primary development OS?
Yes. I'm not alone. ;)
> This could improve Linux desktop developer
> mindshare considerably...
The data on reverse dependencies of openjdk-6-jre from Ubuntu Karmic
repositories suggest that there are around 60 apps using it in Ubuntu
9.10,
from scientific apps to games, IDEs, , and around 250 packages in
total
depending on it (apps, libs, etc.). For the mono-runtime package, the
latter number is around 280, I haven't looked at the apps number.
In terms of actual usage on desktop Linux, Ubuntu is probably a good
distribution to look at due to its focus on the desktop. From Ubuntu's
popcon data on what software its users participating in the
'popularity contest'
(i.e. popcon) use regularly, the numbers are at
http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_vote
#Format
#
#<name> is the package name;
#<inst> is the number of people who installed this package;
#<vote> is the number of people who use this package regularly;
#<old> is the number of people who installed, but don't use this
package
# regularly;
#<recent> is the number of people who upgraded this package recently;
#<no-files> is the number of people whose entry didn't contain enough
# information (atime and ctime were 0).
#rank name inst vote old recent no-files
(maintainer)
277 mono-runtime 1032423 59602 954048 16938 1835
(Debian Mono Group)
295 sun-java6-jre 540691 58000 448023 32559 2109
(Matthias Klose)
684 openjdk-6-jre 242260 23645 192993 25582 40
(Matthias Klose)
In terms of actual usage, around 6% of Ubuntu's around 1M users
participating in popcon
(opt-in, so don't take the numbers too seriously) use mono and about
the same amount
uses Java SE 6 - so in terms of desktop user mindshare, that's
probably not as bad as
some participants in this thread would expect, I guess.
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