 |
Puppy Linux Discussion Forum Puppy HOME page : puppylinux.com "THE" alternative forum : puppylinux.info
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in|
The time now is Wed 22 May 2013, 23:41 All times are UTC - 4 |
 Forum index » Taking the Puppy out for a walk » Puppy Power |
|
[Solved] A [BAD] way to push up distrowatch numbers
Moderators: Flash, JohnMurga |
 
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Page 1 of 1 [9 Posts] |
| Author | Message | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
tom4jean
 Joined: 02 Dec 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Valatie, N.Y. USA |
Here is an easy way to promote Puppylinux. I noticed a number of people in the forums put a lot of emphasis on the Distrowatch.com list to gauge the popularity of Puppy. While I know it is only a gauge of how many clicks Puppy gets on their site and is not a true representation of puppy's use a suggestion I have is that anytime you want to get to these forums or Puppylinux.com start by going through Distrowatch.com clicking on the Puppy link in the right stat column and then follow the link to puppylinux.com from there, and then the forum link from Barry's site. While I am sure they probably go by clicks from IP addresses and only allow one a day if everyone on this forum did that each time that they wanted to get to the forum I bet we could drive puppy's numbers up quite quickly., And with the amount of change I have seen recently on those numbers I suspect other distos are already doing something like that. Rather then being dishonest this would actually make those numbers on Distrowatch more accurate by capturing the amount of people in these forums actually using Puppy. _________________ AKA: tom4jesus; Running Quirky 1.0 on Compaq cq10 netbook Search the Puppy Forums to find that elusive PET; http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxSearchEngine Last edited by tom4jean on Sat 27 Mar 2010, 13:52; edited 2 times in total |
||||
|
|||||
 |
|||||
|
nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9387 Location: SwedenEurope |
Yes let's do it. _________________ I'm a noob so I use Google Search of Puppy Forum |
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
01micko
 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld |
Ho hum... Stats is stats, can be bent any which way. Puppy is Puppy... .. who cares about stats? _________________ keep the faith  ..  |
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
dejan555
 Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro |
Stop the distrowatch madness you don't help puppy that way. These threads only put pressure on Barry and developers and rush things they usually wouldn't. _________________ 
 |
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
technosaurus
 Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843 |
Please don't - we don't need the negative publicity that PCLinuxOS got for doing this about a year ago. _________________ Puppy Web Desktop Now with pet packages - Pet Packaging 100 & 101 |
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
dejan555
Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2407 Location: Montenegro |
Very true _________________
|
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
tom4jean
Joined: 02 Dec 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Valatie, N.Y. USA |
Sorry, I didn't realize that happened in the past. Puppy does not need that. My suggestion was really based on the fact that I really don't think the distrowatch numbers at all reflect the true use of any distro, but over and and over they are unfairly referred to in reviews and by posters. Lets call this a bad idea and [Solved] with a big NAY to the idea. 
_________________ AKA: tom4jesus; Running Quirky 1.0 on Compaq cq10 netbook Search the Puppy Forums to find that elusive PET; http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxSearchEngine |
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
8-bit
 Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon |
I am sorry I brought the subject up.
Although I visit the DistroWatch site, I NEVER click on Puppy just to be clicking on it. And you are right in that it is just a page hit rating and does not reflect the true popularity of a distro. |
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
musher0
 Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 2211 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
(My underline and emphasis.) What does, then? How else can we know how many people are actually using Puppy or a derivate? The thing is, MS is using stats to control the market. Also their system is set to send "panic" messages about people not having MS Office installed or some other of their products, but that is another subject. Also they have tried to dish sole-provider contracts issued under a bizarre combination of jurisdictions that MS will keep "empty" to bring down any company that dares criticize them. Again, that's another subject. (They tried that on a co-op I was a member of, but we saw through the smoke screen.) To come back to number of users. Let's keep in mind that some people are afraid to say they are not using the monopoly product all the time. Are the numbers really (off the top of my head) Linux: 2 %, MacIntosh: 2%, MS: 96 % ??? I doubt that very much. How do you free people of the dominant and manipulated and serfdom mentality? Granted, boosting our stats on DistroWatch is not the way, and it is certainly a very incomplete approach in view of the general OS environment. Any ideas, people? _________________  "...l'industrie de l'informatique n'aura besoin que de très peu de temps pour ramener l'humanité aux dessins rupestres." (M. Goebbel, Order of the Command Line; [ma trad.]) |
||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
[Solved] A [BAD] way to push up distrowatch numbers
| Page 1 of 1 [9 Posts] |
|
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
|
Forum index » Taking the Puppy out for a walk » Puppy Power |
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum |
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group