On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:08:54AM -0800, Jon Kent wrote: > http://www.distrowatch.com/stats.php?1#04 > > The shows that the top 4 Distributions are: > > 1) Mandrake > 2) Red Hat > 3) Gentoo > 4) Debian
No, it doesn't. It shows that the most frequently viewed distribution pages on distrowatch.com are: 1) Mandrake 2) Red Hat 3) Gentoo 4) Debian And the sample size is approximately 56000 page views. > Now that we have X 4.2.1 in testing, maybe its a good time to do a point > release? Get stable up to date, as testing is fairly up to date and seems > stable at least on my boxes (x86). Radical thinking I know ;-) If you had lived through a stable Debian release cycle, you would realize that what you are asking for is not a point release. > You may not care about people's perception, but that was due, partically, > to UNIX's down fall when MS turning up with Windows. Everyone perceived > UNIX to be complex and where quite happy to dump it in favour of NT. > Perception, unfortunately, counts for a lot, technical excellance gets > forgotten. Its crap I know, but that the way of the world. Your version of computer history is rather twisted. Care to provide a reference? -- - mdz