Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:08:54AM -0800, Jon Kent wrote:
> 
> > http://www.distrowatch.com/stats.php?1#04
> > 
> > The shows that the top 4 Distributions are:
> > 
> > 1) Mandrake
> > 2) Red Hat
> > 3) Gentoo
> > 4) Debian
> 
> No, it doesn't.  It shows that the most frequently viewed distribution pages
> on distrowatch.com are:
> 
> 1) Mandrake
> 2) Red Hat
> 3) Gentoo
> 4) Debian

Indeed, the Debian home page is so well organized and so easy to find
and get around in, that people don't *need* so many secondary sources
of information.  Our success at doing our job well has meant that the
distrowatch counter is especially inaccurate in our case.