Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-28 Thread Grady Martin
On 2016年02月19日 18時48分, Felix von Zadow wrote: Im not aware of a representative survey. But if you're not after reliable numbers, try combining statistics on the total number of linux users world wide [1] with the percentage of Arch users [2]. Tadaa, 2,4M Arch users. Our numbers are that strong

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-19 Thread Felix von Zadow
> I want to have a number how much people are using Arch Linux > worldwide. I don't need an exact number. Im not aware of a representative survey. But if you're not after reliable numbers, try combining statistics on the total number of linux users world wide [1] with the percentage of Arch user

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-19 Thread Temlin Olivér
A good statistic would be from the downloads on the filesystem/coreutils/pacman packages, but you would need to get all the mirrors to track that. Also, that still measures the number of machines and not the users. -- Oliver Temlin

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-19 Thread sekret
* Christian Rebischke [18.02.2016 21:03]: Hello everyone, Is there any counter for ISO-downloads or something? I want to have a number how much people are using Arch Linux worldwide. I don't need an exact number. Does somebody has some statistics? best regards Chris Ask the NSA, they are pr

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-19 Thread Ben Oliver
I can only agree with all the above. The nature of Arch, and free software in general, makes it very hard to track the number of users. Commercially, 'number of users' can be a measure of success so people go to great lengths to keep tabs on how many users they have (or they have an even simpler m

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-19 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
The nature of ArchLinux as a rolling-release distro means that ISO downloads are not a good measure of the number of users at all. (Most users downloaded an ISO once, a long time ago, and not for each release as for other distros.) Add to that the fact that there are torrent links for the ISO as we

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-18 Thread Sebastiaan Lokhorst
2016-02-18 21:42 GMT+01:00 Tim Ohliger : > I do not know about a download counter, but maybe distrowatch.com is what > you are looking for. > DistroWatch itself says: >The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics (...) correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-18 Thread Tim Ohliger
Hi. I do not know about a download counter, but maybe distrowatch.com is what you are looking for. Kind regards Tim 2016-02-18 21:02 GMT+01:00 Christian Rebischke < chris.rebisc...@archlinux.org>: > Hello everyone, > Is there any counter for ISO-downloads or something? I want to have a > number

[arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-18 Thread Christian Rebischke
Hello everyone, Is there any counter for ISO-downloads or something? I want to have a number how much people are using Arch Linux worldwide. I don't need an exact number. Does somebody has some statistics? best regards Chris signature.asc Description: PGP signature