> > Want to know how popular the BeleniX 0.6 distribution is? Then take a > > look at the download stats just published for 2007. There's a link on > > the main page at www.genunix.org. > > > > Again - many congratulations to Moinak Ghosh and his team. > > In a similar statement of value, Blastwave.org delivers software at a > rate > of 750,000 to 1 million fetches of the software catalog per month. There > are > some 44,000 unique visitors to the site monthly and the three primary > software mirrors deliver 500,000 software packages monthly. > > Average usage is 16,000 packages/fetches per day from a primary mirror > like Perdue University or Ibiblio.org. > > The impact this has on users that are thinking of moving to Linux and > away > >from Solaris is non-trivial. > > Dennis Clarke
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2007-April/001147.html <QUOTE> WOW! As many as 4 (four!) individuals have downloaded http://www.martux.org/xorg/Xorg7.2.0_opensol_sparc_snv60_binary_pkgs.tar.gz over the last 40 hours, according to "grep -n binary_pkgs.tar access_log|wc -l". </QUOTE> And MS-Windows - on the other hand - is slightly more popular. So what does it all mean? Is it unconditionally relevant in terms of the quality and or quantity of provided effort and IP? Please don't forget Joerg Schilling, who once laid out the *foundation* for any follow-up distribution. And he openly documented his steps and instantly provided the code to re-create SchilliX - not necessarily under that name: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/schillix-0.3-base-kit.tar.gz2 ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schillix/ And where comes GNU-Solaris/Nextenda? Now that you are going to create your reference distro, you probably don't need any competition anymore. Like in my country of birth, the GDR. So then. Finally time for paying off all the loans. -- Martin Bochnig _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
