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Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?



On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:33:22PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> #include <hallo.h>
> * 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.

Browser IDs?  Those are just page views for the distrowatch pages for each
distribution.  It is a rough estimate of how many people are looking at
those pages.  It neither has, nor claims, to represent how many people are
using it.

-- 
 - mdz



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