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In defense of Ubuntu reproachIn defense of Ubuntu reproachPosted Aug 22, 2008 16:24 UTC (Fri) by andrel (subscriber, #5166)In reply to: In defense of Ubuntu reproach by nevyn Parent article: In defense of Ubuntu
Actually we do have something better than Google trends for stats. For example Ubuntu popcon, Debian popcon, and Fedora smolt all attempt to measure various interesting things including number of users. (Smolt seems to be down due to the recent Fedora intrusion.) Mirror admins also have insight into number of downloads, though most don't publish their numbers.
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In defense of Ubuntu reproach Posted Aug 22, 2008 20:21 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129) [Link] I didn't know Ubuntu published popcon numbers, thanks for that pointer! Interestingly, unless I'm reading it wrong, the stats. there show Fedora=584,595 Ubuntu=677,927 which is a huge difference from the trends data.
In defense of Ubuntu reproach Posted Aug 23, 2008 1:47 UTC (Sat) by andrewsomething (subscriber, #53527) [Link]
I'm not sure how Smolt works on Fedora, but on Ubuntu you must explicitly opt in to popcorn. So while it's probably a better judge than Google trends, it would be a very conservative estimate. I imagine the same goes for Smolt and Fedora as well.
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