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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Arch Popularity

Since I am bored i am going to, completely unscientifically, assess the popularity of arch through the amount of users on each respective distribution's irc channel:

#archlinux - 442
#gentoo - 929
#slackware - 277
#ubuntu - 1309
#suse - 305
#fedora - 453

So contrary to distrowatch.com it seems we're not so small as one might think!

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daf666

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 459

Re: Arch Popularity

#archlinux - 442 - ??
#gentoo - 929 - 900 users ideling while waiting a three day compile to finish
#slackware - 277 - only 200 users dont have an irc client with missing dependencies
#ubuntu - 1309 - 1000 users dont even know they are on irc
#suse - 305 - only the 300 non firewalled employees can reach irc
#fedora - 453 - 400 users trading forbidden non FOS packages

KyKo

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Registered: 2007-06-15

Posts: 26

Re: Arch Popularity

#archlinux - 442 - ??
#gentoo - 929 - 900 users ideling while waiting a three day compile to finish
#slackware - 277 - only 200 users dont have an irc client with missing dependencies
#ubuntu - 1309 - 1000 users dont even know they are on irc
#suse - 305 - only the 300 non firewalled employees can reach irc
#fedora - 453 - 400 users trading forbidden non FOS packages

Nice!

ornitorrincos

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From: Bilbao, spain

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 194

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Re: Arch Popularity

#archlinux - 442 - 441 users are using it as a offtopic channel ignoring to MrEleding

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peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: Arch Popularity

You forgot #archlinux - 442 - 400 users trying to humour Mr.Elendig

edit: ornitorrincos... weird we should think almost the same thing at the same time

Last edited by peets (2008-08-07 18:42:57)

glad

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-11-01

Posts: 103

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Re: Arch Popularity

Really great;)

I must say that I like the growing popularity of Arch and Linux in general, maybe in five years we konquer all the windows users or not..

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 382

Re: Arch Popularity

They've already been conquered -- they just don't know it yet.

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dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,109

Re: Arch Popularity

They've already been conquered -- they just don't know it yet.

Critical mass has been reached. Now it's just a matter of time...

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neotuli

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From: San Francisco, CA

Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 1,201

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Re: Arch Popularity

What's that? You want some statsporn?
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page= … 4&active=1
Indicates that the last batch of installer images was downloaded a total of roughly 11000 times via bittorrent. Assuming roughly the same number (I think it's actually slightly more) downloads from FTP and our mirrors, the last set of install images was probably downloaded over 20,000 times between ftp and torrents.

http://dev.archlinux.org/~dan/archgrowth.png shows some stats on our various websites. All points are PER MONTH. The right y-axis is for forum posts only, while the left y-axis is for all other data. So for instance, last month, the forums took on a little over 12,000 posts, and about 600 new users.

Enjoy

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: Arch Popularity

Fancy .

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ljshap

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From: Ossining, NY

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 143

Re: Arch Popularity

Really great;)

I must say that I like the growing popularity of Arch and Linux in general, maybe in five years we konquer all the windows users or not..

Are you saying KDE will be the konqueror or windoz will be sunk by the nautilus with assistance from krusader and the midnight commander saving dolphins from the evil empire.

The above comment (mine) is a perfect example of  Mark Twains famous quote about "its better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and prove it".

  PS:  Slackware peope are on usenet.

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zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: Arch Popularity

#archlinux - 442 - 441 users are using it as a offtopic channel ignoring to MrEleding

lol!
So true. Heh, I have been guilty of this one myself.

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