Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

[Andy Braben]

> 
>>
>
> Alan - That is quite interesting.
>
> Gordon - Yes perhaps 10.04 is the most commonly used on that basis, by the
> way, Google reported your message with this "This message may not have been
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>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Dave Hanson
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I get quite a few users of this list that show "This message may not have
been sent by:"

It's only happened for the past few weeks, and seems to be Google getting it
wrong.


It really seems impossible to me to be able to work out any form of ubuntu
stats as it is free software and anyone can do what the hell they like with
it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

[Dave Hanson]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker
wrote:

> On 18/08/11 14:07, Dave Hanson wrote:
>
>> I thought if I has a list of who uses what I could then write "Ubuntu
>> 10.04 has been chosen as it is the most popular version in use at the time
>> of writing"
>>
>>  10.04 is the latest Long Term Support version (LTS) and so is the version
> most likely to be used by commercial and business operations. LTS versions
> are released every two years so the next one will be 12.04.
> The intermediate releases tend to be more cutting edge and may well be more
> unstable...
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Alan - That is quite interesting.

Gordon - Yes perhaps 10.04 is the most commonly used on that basis, by the
way, Google reported your message with this "This message may not have been
sent by: gbpli...@gmail.com  Learn
more
  Report phishing"


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

[Alan Pope]

On 18 August 2011 14:13, Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:
> 10.04 is the latest Long Term Support version (LTS) and so is the version
> most likely to be used by commercial and business operations. LTS versions
> are released every two years so the next one will be 12.04.
> The intermediate releases tend to be more cutting edge and may well be more
> unstable...
>

Mark indicated that 11.04 was "the fastest-adopted release of Ubuntu ever".

Al.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On 18/08/11 14:07, Dave Hanson wrote:
I thought if I has a list of who uses what I could then write "Ubuntu 
10.04 has been chosen as it is the most popular version in use at the 
time of writing"


10.04 is the latest Long Term Support version (LTS) and so is the 
version most likely to be used by commercial and business operations. 
LTS versions are released every two years so the next one will be 12.04.
The intermediate releases tend to be more cutting edge and may well be 
more unstable...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

[Alan Pope]

On 18 August 2011 12:27, Dave Hanson  wrote:
> Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which version 
> of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something?

in his recent blog post, Mark Shuttleworth indicated that using the
user-agent strings in wikipedia access logs was one way to determine
versions of Ubuntu used. But there's some contention in the comments
about the validity of this.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/717

Al.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

[Dave Hanson]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Tony Pursell
wrote:

>
>
> On 18 August 2011 12:27, Dave Hanson  wrote:
>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which
>> version of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something?
>>
>>
> 'Accurately' is an almost impossible task.  There may be download figures,
> but perhaps not stats on how many people upgrade to a new release.  Almost
> no accurate figures of how many people get a CD from a friend or other
> contact.  And so on.
>
> Sometimes there are online surveys and I suppose LoCos could survey their
> members - but these are not very representative of all users.
>
> Why do you ask?
>
> Tony
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> Ah, I see - Thanks Tony.

I'm doing a forensic analysis on Ubuntu and Firefox 6, I need to justify
what version of Ubuntu I am using. At the minute I'm going for 11.04 as I
think it is the most recently released usable and stable version.

I thought if I has a list of who uses what I could then write "Ubuntu 10.04
has been chosen as it is the most popular version in use at the time of
writing"

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

[Tony Pursell]

On 18 August 2011 12:27, Dave Hanson  wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which version
> of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something?
>
>
'Accurately' is an almost impossible task.  There may be download figures,
but perhaps not stats on how many people upgrade to a new release.  Almost
no accurate figures of how many people get a CD from a friend or other
contact.  And so on.

Sometimes there are online surveys and I suppose LoCos could survey their
members - but these are not very representative of all users.

Why do you ask?

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[ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu

[Dave Hanson]

Hello Everyone,

Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which version
of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something?

Best Regards,

Dave Hanson
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