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On 20 December 2006 03:58, Grant wrote: |
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> I think other posters to this thread may be trying to compile a |
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> similar set of statistics, but I'll just come out and say it. Can we |
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> compare historical data on the number of Gentoo users and the rate of |
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> Gentoo maintenance and growth? Conceptually, I would think a 2-axis |
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> chart along with three plot-lines would be appropriate. Which data |
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> points should be plotted? We need something to represent users, |
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> maintenance, and growth. |
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As others have said, it is next to impossible to determine the number of users |
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to any degree of accuracy. Commercial distros can at least tell how many sets |
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of CDs/DVDs they sell, although that doesn't give them the exact number of |
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users either. It is even more difficult for distros like Gentoo where |
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everyone can download the stuff. |
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The Polytechnic of Namibia maintains an unofficial Gentoo mirror. So everyone |
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around here that can access their network uses their mirror. Those downloads |
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are invisible for Gentoo. I maintain one portage tree and install all my |
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customers' boxes from it. These installations are even less visible to |
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Gentoo. |
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I can't think of any method to get real numbers. |
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Uwe |
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A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 |
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