Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:11:15PM +0200, Mikko Moilanen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:33:22PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > * Mikko Moilanen [Wed, Nov 20 2002, 10:11:25PM]:
> >
> > > If we look from http://www.distrowatch.com/stats.php?1#04 we can see
> > > that is clearly Gentoo.
> >
> > Sorry, but _how_ do they get their data? When I follow the desciption, I
> > have the impression that they try to guess the distribution from the
> > Browser IDs, visiting their page. Then there is no wonder in this
> > statistics - happy Debian users seldom visit such "my-is-longer"
> > competitions while Gentoo users surfing on the hype wave are visiting it
> > again and again.
>
> "..it's hard for those undisciplined visitors to rig the results as additional clicks from an identical IP address are not counted -- unless there is a 30-minute delay between them."
So the 1000 debian boxes [1] behind my NAT proxy get counted once? That
seems fair.
[1] Hypothetical, but you get the idea.
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