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babbs · Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 02:02 Post subject: Chubby Puppy (1.0.4) Popularity

In verious places, I've mentioned Chubby Puppy's download rate from my server. Looking over the web stats, I found a few things interesting (current, as of the timestamp of this posting):

- Chubby Puppy has been downloaded 10,593 times (614,220,493 KBytes).
- The Chubby Puppy checksum file was downloaded only 624 times.
- The number of obvious dialup connections attempting to download Chubby Puppy surprises me.
- Referring addresses are as follows:
...- distrowatch.com - 27.52%
...- Direct Request - 27.51%
...- Puppy's download page - 6.08%
...- linuxcenter.ru - 4.93%
...- Puppy's news page - 4.10%
- Top User Agents used to download Chubby Puppy:
...- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98 ) - 26.91%
...- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1 ) - 6.82%
...- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8 ) Gec - 4.32%
...- DA 7.0 - 4.01%
...- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98 ) - 3.76%
...- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8 ) Gecko/20050 - 2.75%

Tonight was the first time I saw that distrowatch.com referrals outnumbered the direct request numbers. I don't know what the user agent "DA 7.0" is, but if it isn't Linux based, then the first Linux user agent found was in the sixth position.

I thought this info was interesting. I hope you don't mind that I've posted it (I also hope you don't think I'll be doing this all the time Wink

, only when I think the numbers are interesting).

Babbs

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

i think da is http://www.speedbit.com/

BarryK · Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 11:24 Post subject:

Babbs,
yes, I find those stats very interesting!

OpenOffice in a 96M live-cd must be intriguing many people!

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1277 Location: UK

I am one of those 624 who downloaded the md5 file!

Can I just say that the concept of Chubby Puppy is brilliant. It is not just the fact that it is on a 96MB live CD. Because it is embedded with Puppy it is in RAM and FAST to open!!

I have been playing with Open Office for a while and it was only really useful from my 1.5GHz Centrino Laptop coming from a Poor Mans Install of Knoppix. On the 350MHz powered Win 98 machine it was too slow. The slowness to open Open Office has been commented on, even when users have a hard disk install.

Chubby Puppy blows the problem away.

Well done Babbs and I just hope you can maintain Chubby Puppy as both Puppy and OOO develop with later versions. I also hope your server can maintain the increase in downloading that is bound to occur as the news gets out.

OOO is a killer app for Puppy Linux and Puppy Linux is a killer OS for OOO. A marriage made in heaven.

ICPUG

Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

ICPUG, I fully second your opinion!

The first time that I ran Open Office was on a WindowsME machine (this one, last year) and I couldn't understand for the life of me why anyone liked it asides from purely political reasons (which is OK, to be sure) because it literally took 2 minutes to load on my machine.

Now, with puppy, on the same machine, no changes, it opens up in less than 10 seconds.

Yes, it's a stripped down version (not sure how much) but I'd like to say thanks to everyone who worked on this, I think it's f*cking awesome!

Cheers Very Happy

gnomen · Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 65 Location: NORWAY

Don't overlook the torrent-downloads either. I am seeding and it is pouring out. Well, in a relative manner of speaking..

Lobster · Posted: Wed 27 Jul 2005, 22:09 Post subject:

Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

Good point there Lobster.

Willl give that a whirl -

And I should clarify, that I'm running on a machine that has been certified as dying by more than one person knowledgeable enough for me to wipe my hands of them and just quote their expertice....

Next Thursday, I am going to go down to this thrift store that I know, where they have a P2, 256MB ram, come's with keyboard, monitor, mouse - $55!

I am really looking forward to testing puppy on something that seems reasonably healthy - they have Win98 loaded onto it right now, with some apps, and I figure that between the two machines I should be able to put a decent comp together.

Oh yeah, shut up Banco - talking to yourself is one thing, typing is something on an entirely different level (sorry for rambling, a little off topic).....

Rolling Eyes

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

I like your server for being able to churn out such huge numbers!

Or better still the owner for allowing that to happen Very Happy

babbs · Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 22:56 Post subject: July Numbers (16-31)

Chubby Puppy 1.0.4 Download Site Statistics for July 2005:

ISO Files: 14,082 - 773,625,364KB.
md5sum Files: 828 - 47KB.

babbs · Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 23:21 Post subject: August Numbers

Chubby Puppy 1.0.4 Download Site Statistics for August 2005:

ISO Files: 6,086 - 237,713,832KB.
md5sum Files: 370 - 23KB.

Walt H · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2005, 00:04 Post subject: question

Although I personally prefer AbiWord and the idea of having separate stand-alone applications for the various functions (AbiWord, Gnumeric, Scribus) over a suite (OO or MS Office), I'm sure the idea of a faster responding OO suite (over versions in other distributions) is appealing. I was wondering, though, whether OpenOffice has any of the same printing issues experienced of late with AbiWord. Color me curious. Question

BarryK · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2005, 08:34 Post subject:

I think EarlSmith reported success printing from OO.

wetterau · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 36

OO writer prints well on my generic desktop. Abiword has intermittent problems of various kinds (printing, no smart quotes, incomplete MS Word compatibility) that keep me from using it. It loads wonderfully fast and has a good interface, but the odd hassles make OO worth the wait (30 seconds on my slow machine). OO is really excellent if you are writing day in and day out. I'd almost rather have a minimalist editor plus OO and AbiWord availability (this is what DSL offers) than include AbiWord in the base distro. Chubby is good, but Scribus is not included, a very useful program.
I can, of course, roll my own Puppy, but, given the constant improvements to the base system, it is easier to stay with what Barry chooses. This is an excellent system and getting better all the time. I love it that it is free. I give away my own work (3 novels, two collections of poems, a book of stories, and an intro to the stock market) on www.memoware.com (each in five different ebook formats, search on author: wetterau), so I'm especially gratified to be able to use Puppy. I made a living programming for 25 years; I know how much work has gone into Puppy. Many many people are going to benefit from it.

EarlSmith · Posted: Wed 03 Aug 2005, 18:44 Post subject:

Yes, Barry, you are right. Here's some stats --

OO writer loads in 9 sec
OO calc loads in 9 sec
I can't believe it --- 9 secs

Puppy boots in 20 secs from GRUB with Puppy on HD

Loaded a long ms word document from a win partition
Also loaded a large excel spreadsheet from same win partition
Both printed perfectly on hp laserjet 6p printer, also was using the generic printer driver
How could anyone ask for more?

I am a VERY HAPPY Puppy user

Oh, forget to send that donation, it will be on the way tomorrow!

I have a very plain 1.2ghz AMD cpu, 256mb ram, 40gb hd with a 2gb Puppy partition.