On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:16:41 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Last I checked every distrowatch listing above openSUSE still provided a 32 bit version, and IIRC, it was necessary to drop below the top 10 to find one that didn't.
Distrowatch is not a measure of distribution popularity or userbase. Distrowatch is a page counter that measures the popularity of pages for particular distributions on distrowatch. That's all they measure. People seem to think that there's some magic about Distrowatch rankings that has something to do with how many people run a particular distribution. That's entirely false.
From the distrowatch "Page Hit Ranking" page:
"The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch.com was accessed each day, nothing more." I get really tired of people confusing Distrowatch's statistics with distribution popularity or other such metrics. If I visit the Fedora page, it counts a hit on the Fedora page. I'm not using Fedora, but I might have a question about what the latest version is or what's included in it, and distrowatch can tell me that. Since I don't use Fedora at all, it's an incorrect assumption to draw that the increase I give the Fedora page by visiting that page has anything to do with the number of people using Fedora. Interest in a distribution is not the same as using it. That is obvious. Understanding that Distrowatch at best measures *interest* and not *usage* seems to be far less obvious to a lot of people. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org