CAsurfer
January 16th, 2008, 08:34 PM
I'm interested in measuring Ubuntu's success, and by comparison, the success of other Linux distributions.
1) Distrowatch can tell you which distributions are hot in terms of hits per day, but do you know of any sites that post estimates of the size of each distro's userbase?
2) It seems to me that a good proxy for the future success of a distribution is its present number of developers. Do you know how many developers Ubuntu has, and how that compares to other distributions? Perhaps it would be best to separate developers by full-time versus part-time.
Thanks.
1) Distrowatch can tell you which distributions are hot in terms of hits per day, but do you know of any sites that post estimates of the size of each distro's userbase?
2) It seems to me that a good proxy for the future success of a distribution is its present number of developers. Do you know how many developers Ubuntu has, and how that compares to other distributions? Perhaps it would be best to separate developers by full-time versus part-time.
Thanks.