I guess the disproportionate ratio between Ubuntu and Debian is because you
provide the package for Ubuntu. I have never been able to compile FEniCS
for Debian by simply running the script provided.


On 29 January 2014 11:37, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Here are the results from the FEniCS user survey:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bcs2Jwv9pZ8J57rLIUjZBj8BD-_tcUiU11NGX9VkWAs/viewanalytics
>
> In short, we have 80% GNU/Linux, 15% Mac and 5% Win, which seems like
> reasonable figures. There are also some interesting comments at the
> bottom.
>
> Based on these numbers and our web logs for 2013 (or more correctly,
> one year back from today), I have calculated some approximate download
> numbers. These are based on finding unique IP addresses / week for
> downloads of Mac and Win binaries.
>
> Summary (mac, win, tot_mac, tot_win, tot)
> Week:  50.44 63.38 336.266666667 1056.33333333 696.3
> Month: 218.573333333 274.646666667 1457.15555556 4577.44444444 3017.3
> Year:  2622.88 3295.76 17485.8666667 54929.3333333 36207.6
>
> Exrapolation of Mac downloads gives 17000 downloads / year, whereas
> extrapolation of Win downloads gives 55000 downloads / year. The truth
> is likely somewhere in between. The lower figure for Mac is very
> reasonable since Mac users can also get FEniCS through other sources
> (building from source and now Macports). Then there's also the issue
> that these figures are based on a fairly small number of responses to
> the survey.
>
> 5 years ago, when we could track all downloads (before Debian/Ubuntu
> binaries) we had on the order of 1000 downloads / month, so 50,000
> downloads / year is not an unreasonable figure.
>
> Then there's the question how downloads relate to users. Is there a
> rule of thumb for estimating the number of users based on downloads?
>
> --
> Anders
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