Re: Estimate of Debian installed base

[Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>]

Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Do we have _any_ way to come up with even a halfway reasonable
> figure ?
> 
> If we had an idea of relative market share between Debian and Red Hat
> we could use Red Hat's figures, I suppose.

I like how Slackware used to do it.

After installing, it would ask nicely if you would like to register
with the Linux Counter (via email).

We could do something similar.  That wouldn't catch everybody, but it
would certainly give us a lower bound to work with.

Cheers,

 - Jim