results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)
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From: Andrew Sackville-West on 16 Nov 2009 20:10 On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:07:21PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > Following is the results of a poll that has been running for over a > week, one which questions readers of debian-user to list their > favourite FLOSS -> Free (Libre) or Open Source Software. [...] > > sidenote: > this year has had probably the worst participation since I've started > this poll in 2005 :-( I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. A
From: Tim Tebbit on 16 Nov 2009 20:40 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? > > my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of > traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. This seem to back that up. http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Andrew Sackville-West on 17 Nov 2009 02:10 On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:47PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? > > > > my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of > > traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. > > This seem to back that up. > > http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png first of all, thanks for a great link. moving one up in the directory is amazing! And it seems to be the same across most of the more active lists. I thought perhaps amd64 was getting some of the traffic with the rise in that architecture, but no, it is falling as well. Interesting. A
From: Dotan Cohen on 17 Nov 2009 02:20 >> sidenote: >> this year has had probably the worst participation since I've started >> this poll in 2005 :-( > > I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? > > my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of > traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. > My guess would be the popularity of Ubuntu. Much of the pie went there. As Ubuntu is Debian-derived, how about doing the poll there as well? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Tixy on 17 Nov 2009 04:20
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:31 -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? > > > > my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of > > traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. > > This seem to back that up. > > http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png > > Perhaps http://forums.debian.net/ took the traffic. That seems to have started at the end of 2004 - about the same time the debian-user list trafic began to decline. -- Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org |