Mirjam Wäckerlin wrote: > Hello, > > recently, Mark Shuttleworth was asked in an interview about the > numbers of users of ubuntu and he estimated this to be about 8 million > [1]. > > Now, several people are asking for the sources of this number. > Do we have any authentic statistics like > * Number of downloads > * Stats for the repositories > * Shipit stats > > ? > > I think it would be a big advantage to have such stats because we > could use these numbers for marketing (e.g. included in the UWN). > > Regards, > > Mirjam > > > [1] > http://redherring.com/article.aspx?a=20497 > Q: What about growth in adoption rates, any kind of numbers that you > can give me? > A: We know now that there are probably at least 8 million [Ubuntu] users.
Yes I think this also. In addition it would be useful if an ongoing note could be kept (anyone?) and commented upon for the number of ubuntu derived distros there are out there. The best news items often seem to be made out of figures! I see ubuntume is new on the distrowatch news recently. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
