On Fri, 2022-08-26 at 13:55 +0000, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote: > are there any existing assumptions about the population of Debian > users. How many do we have? In addition to the popcon data, there are various stats/monitoring of the Debian download mirrors. https://wiki.debian.org/Statistics#mirrors > the Debian update servers can give a hint about it no matter > that they don't store IPs. This would still underestimate the number of Debian installs, since many of them just do not update (see the popcon versions table for eg), are offline or only get updates from a local mirror or apt proxy. Also many users use a secondary mirror not run by Debian. There are also many Debian derivatives, including private ones and also many derivatives don't gather any user/download statistics. > Debian is so old I assume there where others before me with the same > questions. Maybe someone did an assumption about the real population > of Debian users and presented a method. I can't recall any talks about this at DebConf, maybe take a look at the metadata archive though, something might jump out. https://salsa.debian.org/debconf-video-team/archive-meta -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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