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I wish the dots were scaled by some metric indicating popularity. Such a metric is hard to come up with. Maybe total number of commits. Way awesome though.
by sillysaurus3 13y ago
I wish the dots were scaled by some metric indicating popularity. Such a metric is hard to come up with. Maybe total number of commits.
Way awesome though.
- tbirdz 13y agoPerhaps number of downloads? Number of mirrors?
- heinrich5991 13y agoYou already see some kind of popularity – just count the number of forks.
- koyote 13y agoBut would you say Slackware is more popular these days than OpenSuse? I think number of forks is not a very precise metric.
- sdfjkl 13y agoForks are also an indicator that people weren't happy with the origin.
- orkoden 13y agoIt kind of depends on the forks. Many are just a different set of default installed packages plus a new wallpaper.
- danford 13y agoOr that people were really happy with the origin.. That's like saying countries that based their "constitutions" off of another countries did it because they don't like that countries constitution. What's more likely is that they really like it but just wanted to tweak something.
- igravious 13y agoThe page hit count on http://distrowatch.com/ http://distrowatch.com/ is sometimes used as a popularity proxy. What do you reckon?
- Rovanion 13y agoThat it's horrible as a popularity index and should never be used as such. The number of visits is very low and the population which visits the site is very selective. Instead use data from highly popular sites like wikipedia: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOpera...
- hrrsn 13y agoI don't think that's really accurate enough either. For example that page says iOS 1 is the most popular version of the OS, way ahead of iOS 7.