Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
Also, I could be wrong here, but the polling method MAY be faulty. I'm suspicious of Gentooers - maybe this is what they do: Go to the site, place the vote, clear the cookies, refresh the page, place the vote, rinse and repeat...? If you sit there and refresh the page you'll notice at least 3 votes every 5 seconds - steady stream or something else? Now if we see the Mandrake popularity go thru the roof we'll know whats going on ;) --- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have to put these things in perspective: it's not a scientific pol., It may just be that more Gentoo types hang around Novell. And the Gentoo people probably told all their friends to vote to make it look more popular. How despicable :-D Miark On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:00:59 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
Use the Chicago method Vote early and often On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:20, Tango Echo wrote: Also, I could be wrong here, but the polling method MAY be faulty. I'm suspicious of Gentooers - maybe this is what they do: Go to the site, place the vote, clear the cookies, refresh the page, place the vote, rinse and repeat...? If you sit there and refresh the page you'll notice at least 3 votes every 5 seconds - steady stream or something else? Now if we see the Mandrake popularity go thru the roof we'll know whats going on ;) --- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have to put these things in perspective: it's not a scientific pol., It may just be that more Gentoo types hang around Novell. And the Gentoo people probably told all their friends to vote to make it look more popular. How despicable :-D Miark On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:00:59 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake! Support Mandrake if your one of us.!!!
I will second this... Anyone that cares about mandrake linux should vote for Mandrake ... If novell end up extending their support to add Mandrake to the list as well as Redhat and SUSE (the later of which mandrake is currently tied with on the novell survey.) It will give mandrake a slice of the enterprise market that they could surely benefit from. Comeon guys, support your favorite distro,, this is the sort of thing that gets linux on corporate desktops.. lets make an effort to make Mandrake one of them. http://www.novell.com/linux/ regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Miark Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 12:04 AM To: Newbie Cc: Expert Subject: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake! Let Novell know who ya love :-) http://www.novell.com/linux/ See the poll in the right-most column. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
On June 25, 2003 11:00 am, Inhabitant of Zion did come from Mt Siani and speak: I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. John I'm surprise too. Also surprised the Debian is as popular as it seems. Unless Gentoo and Debian geeks are even more vociferous than the rest of us. As for the Red Hat-SuSE-Mandrake numbers they are about what I expected them to be. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
They did.. its classed as none :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 1:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake! On Wednesday 25 June 2003 12:03 pm, Miark wrote: Let Novell know who ya love :-) http://www.novell.com/linux/ See the poll in the right-most column. Miark Miark: Done. Gee, I wonder why they didn't have SC0/Caldera's Linux listed. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
RANT Mandrake IS popular. Don't base your opinion on how popular Mandrake upon a Novell survey. Geeze before yesturday I don't think I've ever been to Novell's site. No reason to go. How many MDK'ers arn't voting because THEY never go to Novells site and have no idea there's a poll being taken? In fact if I wasn't on this list I would not have known to vote. How many MDKers are not on this list and so don't know to go to Novells site to vote? I know of the MDKers where I work I'm the only one on this list. Maybe the Gentoo folks went out of their way to inform the 20 or so Gentoo users to all go vote. (OK, I'm sure theres more than 20) There are alot more MDKers than puny Novell's site says. phew! Scott /RANT -Original Message- From: John Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake! On June 25, 2003 11:00 am, Inhabitant of Zion did come from Mt Siani and speak: I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. John I'm surprise too. Also surprised the Debian is as popular as it seems. Unless Gentoo and Debian geeks are even more vociferous than the rest of us. As for the Red Hat-SuSE-Mandrake numbers they are about what I expected them to be. ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 06:41, Burrows, Scott wrote: RANT Mandrake IS popular. Don't base your opinion on how popular Mandrake upon a Novell survey. Geeze before yesturday I don't think I've ever been to Novell's site. No reason to go. How many MDK'ers arn't voting because THEY never go to Novells site and have no idea there's a poll being taken? In fact if I wasn't on this list I would not have known to vote. How many MDKers are not on this list and so don't know to go to Novells site to vote? I know of the MDKers where I work I'm the only one on this list. Maybe the Gentoo folks went out of their way to inform the 20 or so Gentoo users to all go vote. (OK, I'm sure theres more than 20) There are alot more MDKers than puny Novell's site says. phew! Scott /RANT -Original Message- From: John Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake! On June 25, 2003 11:00 am, Inhabitant of Zion did come from Mt Siani and speak: I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. John I'm surprise too. Also surprised the Debian is as popular as it seems. Unless Gentoo and Debian geeks are even more vociferous than the rest of us. As for the Red Hat-SuSE-Mandrake numbers they are about what I expected them to be. ttfn JohnWhats Gentoo :- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:41, Burrows, Scott wrote: RANT Mandrake IS popular. I know of the MDKers where I work I'm the only one on this list. /RANT There are unbelievable amounts of linux users, let alone Mandrake users - but you have to figure that MAYBE 20% of them even participate in the email lists, votes, or what have you. Think about THIS for a second: IF every single linux user actually were tallied up, do you REALLY think that any of the statistics that are compiled by newsworthy sources would report Microsoft being 90% of the desktop market? I hardly would think so. -- Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 EST 2003 00:00:00 up 1 day, 23:46, 3 users, load average: 1.29, 1.15, 1.08 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Q: What's the difference between Bell Labs and the Boy Scouts of America? A: The Boy Scouts have adult supervision. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:41, Burrows, Scott wrote: RANT Mandrake IS popular. I know of the MDKers where I work I'm the only one on this list. /RANT There are unbelievable amounts of linux users, let alone Mandrake users - but you have to figure that MAYBE 20% of them even participate in the email lists, votes, or what have you. Think about THIS for a second: IF every single linux user actually were tallied up, do you REALLY think that any of the statistics that are compiled by newsworthy sources would report Microsoft being 90% of the desktop market? I hardly would think so. I wonder how they compile these statistics. It's quite possible that since my computer came with Windows 98 (first edition - aaargh!), I too am counted in with that supposed 90%. There's also the question of how you define desktop. My computer at work runs Mandrake, and we use it for Samba printing and FTP. Does that make it count towards the desktop statistics or the server statistics? The whole Desktop PC thing is an IBM/MS invention, from the days when they were still in bed together (OK, they might not have invented the actual word, but they spread the idea). We Linux users do not have Desktop PCs, we have _workstations_! Fear the penguin. Sir Robin -- Some guy breaking into a government computer system and wreaking havoc makes for a more interesting movie plot than some guy writing device drivers. It's hard to work in a good 10-minutes car chase scene with some guy who writes device drivers... - tjc, post to LWN Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. John -- Lead me not into temptation - I can find my own way thanks! MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
We have to put these things in perspective: it's not a scientific pol., It may just be that more Gentoo types hang around Novell. And the Gentoo people probably told all their friends to vote to make it look more popular. How despicable :-D Miark On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:00:59 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was surprised that Gentoo is so popular. I've never used it myself and never had anybody ever recommend it to me either. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Vote for Mandrake!
Let Novell know who ya love :-) http://www.novell.com/linux/ See the poll in the right-most column. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
