Re: Popularity of Debian/Download of packages

2005-01-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 02:05:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering how popular Debian is and I thought it should be possible > to get an estimate for the stable distribution by measuring how often > the Packages file for the main section is downloaded between updates. > Sinc

Re: Popularity of Debian/Download of packages

2005-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-01-22 14:05:00, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > Possible sources of inaccuracy with this technique: > +Machines which download the Packages file from unofficial mirrors. How do you want to solve this ? I have a full Debian Mirror from BUZZ to SID and installed more then 1200 Machines

Popularity of Debian/Download of packages

2005-01-22 Thread wish
Hi, I was wondering how popular Debian is and I thought it should be possible to get an estimate for the stable distribution by measuring how often the Packages file for the main section is downloaded between updates. Since stable is very stable and apt only downloads the file if it is updated it s