On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:19:01 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message
<20170706121901.GR15821@???>:

> DR D1Rs,
>
> just a quick report on the activity of http://popcon.devuan.org six
> weeks after it was put online.
>
> At the moment, it seems like we have just below 1300 active
> submissions, and the number increases on average by about 20/30 new
> submissions per day.
>
> If we consider that the popularity contest is *disabled* by default,
> and that it is normally not enabled by admins on server installations,
> then we can probably assume that those 1300 units represent between 5%
> and 20% of the overall number of Devuan installations, which would
> correspond to an estimate between 6K-25K Devuan machines in total.
>
> To put things in perspective:
>
> 1) the current popcon numbers for Debian (jessie + stretch) are in the
> region of 150K, so a first rough conclusion is that Devuan has about
> 1% of the use-base of Debian.
>
> 2) The total Debian user-base has remained almost stable in the last
> four years. To grow at the same pace of Devuan, Debian should count
> something like 2K-3K new installations per day, which would be about
> one order of magnitude larger than the observed growth in Debian
> popcon.
>
> In conclusion: these numbers have overall little significance
> _per_se_. As with any statistics, we can speculate over them as
> much or little as we want, but they clearly suggest that the Devuan
> community is growing at a steady pace. This is yet another reason why
> Devuan cannot afford to fail ;)

..we only have amd64, i386, arm64 and "armhf", what happens if we add
x32, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 etc "in progress"
architectures?
(Other than me keeping hurd-i386 and converting my debian lan mirror
to a devuan mirror)

--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.