On Thursday 18 December 2003 04:01, Oliver Lange wrote:
Hi everyone,
Has anyone tried to estimate how many people are currently
using gentoo-linux ? Or other distros ?
Devs have tried some modest estimates by rsync mirror usage statistics. You
should be able to find it in a ml archive or
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:01:50PM +0100 or thereabouts, Oliver Lange wrote:
Has anyone tried to estimate how many people are currently
using gentoo-linux ? Or other distros ?
Good question, huh ?
About the only sort of global metrics we can easily poll are DNS stats.
The gentoo.org name
((# of register gentoo users on the forms) - (# of registered users that
have left gentoo) - ( number of users that have registers twice)) *
(1/(percent of users that register))
# of register gentoo users on the forms = 36789
guess
# of registered users that have left gentoo ~ 1000
# number of
Robert Young wrote:
many read the forms but never post??? assume 60 - 10. Assume 5 % just
RTFM)
percent of users that register 35 to 85
(36789 - 1000 - 1000)*(1/.35) = 99397
to
(36789 - 1000 - 1000)*(1/.85) = 40928
:)... nice attempt. Maybe there are more users who just RTFM/never post..
Might
Hi everyone,
Has anyone tried to estimate how many people are currently
using gentoo-linux ? Or other distros ?
Good question, huh ?
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