Jordi Sayol wrote:
> > What's the approximate total amount of people that uses ALT-Linux? Hard to estimate, i do afraid. If overlook some statistic of ALT's forum (http://forum.altlinux.org/index.php?action=stats), there are circa 6680 of *registered* users in the forum and even more in subscription lists (http://lists.altlinux.org/). In another side, ALT is the second mentioned distribution in xUSSR (after Ubuntu, of course). And finally, it is base of the state project of implementation of free and open software for school and goverment use. By statistic of 2008, there are circa 70000 general (1 -- 11 years of education) schools in Russia (http://medportal.ru/enc/parentschildren/school/16/), so common quantity of pupil may be estimated in 20 000 000, so as minimum 9 000 000 of pupils should teach IT. 30% of schools should use Linux exclusively or together with Windows. So may mention upper estimate as 2 700 000 active users. As far as i can imagine by discussions, 60% of that choose ALT and derivatives, rest prefer Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Edubuntu). Some percents selects Open SuSe and Mandriva. So rough and optimistic estimation of summary ALT's user base may be circa 1 620 000 of pupils. Of cource, many of that 30% of schools does not use any Lniux at all, so estimation should be reduced, but from the other side, there are many professional peoples in IT and companies besides education that defenitelly do. But in any case, estimated user base is substantively large and may be interested to propagate technology of D among them. :) -- /GLeb * Institute of Atmospheric Optics, SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia