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Re: Popularity-contest passes 20000 submitters



Hi,

Maybe the mail quoted below could be included as new in Debian Times?

Ana


On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:24:40PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I'm happy to report that today Debian popularity-contest passed 20000
> participants/machines.  On <URL:http://popcon.debian.org/> you can see
> 20005 submissions considered. :)
> 
> >From the stats, one can see that these are the 10 most used non-Debian
> packages (http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote):
> 
>   #rank name                            inst  vote   old recent no-files
>   1     lame                            3130  1006  1749   375     0
>   2     transcode                       2015   912   724   379     0
>   3     skype                           1464   816   502   145     1
>   4     opera                           1123   704   331    86     2
>   5     sun-j2sdk1.5                    1095   702   335    55     3
>   6     mjpegtools                      2097   644  1050   403     0
>   7     realplayer                      1456   632   674    92    58
>   8     j2re1.4                          858   557   279    16     6
>   9     sun-j2re1.5                      812   519   243    45     5
>   10    mencoder                        1884   499   376  1008     1
> 
> As you can see, multimedia tools are the most popular tools currently
> missing in the Debian archive.  Not too surprising. :)
> 
> The submitters are also providing information on their architecture.
> This give a nice view on the diversity of the Debian community.
> 
>   16612  84.12% i386
>    2048  10.37% amd64
>     460   2.33% arm
>     266   1.35% powerpc
>     132   0.67% sparc
>      49   0.25% alpha
>      44   0.22% hppa
>      32   0.16% ia64
>      25   0.13% mipsel
>      18   0.09% s390
>      17   0.09% mips
>      14   0.07% armeb
>      12   0.06% kfreebsd-i386
>      10   0.05% m68k
>       5   0.03% hurd-i386
>       2   0.01% kfreebsd-amd64
>       2   0.01% i486
>       1   0.01% ppc64
>   19749 100.00% total (ignored 256 without arch info)
> 
> If you want your machine to participate as well, all you need to do is
> 'aptitude install popularity-contest', and accept when asked if you
> want to participate.
> 
> Friendly,
> -- 
> Petter Reinholdtsen



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