Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (223 mails)

[Christoph Thiel <cthiel@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> >>> is there anyway to have a counter of the number of opensuse 
> >>> downloaded?
> >> 
> >> Do you mean of SUSE Linux 10.0 distributions downloaded?
> >
> > yes - you are right, I have difficulties separating the
> > community and the distribution :-)
> 
> Christoph should be able to get a count from what has been downloaded 
> via download.opensuse.org.  Michael might have some more statistics. For 
> what do you need these?

Sure, I have the logs of download.openSUSE.org -- but I don't really trust 
those statistics, because they are most likely inaccurate. The only way to 
get hard facts would be to ask *all* SUSE / openSUSE mirrors to come up 
with their logs + add the BT stats... we used some heuristics and YOU 
stats to "count" the number of running / installed SUSE Linux'es, but even 
those numbers might be quite inexact ;)

Anyway, do you really think we need those kind of numbers (presumably 
live?) to impress people? IMHO having something like... "downloaded more 
than <somebignumber>" would be sufficient.


Regards
	Christoph