On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 04:33:42PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The popcon count reached 70 000, and then it started falling. I believe popcon.d.o expires entries older than about a month, so the 70k number is measuring `systems configured to report their configuration to Debian in, that have been able to do so within the last month'. If a system running oldstable had reported to popcon on day 1, was reinstalled with stable and re-reported to popcon on day 14, then it'd be counted once on days 1-13, twice on days 14-30 and once on days 31-onwards, eg, causing a perceived decrease in systems, when actually the number of systems is constant. popcon's better for estimating proportions of systems within the Debian user base, than comparisons outside it -- how many systems total, how many compared to Ubuntu, etc. Cheers, aj
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