Chubby Puppy (1.0.4) Popularity
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 , only when I think the numbers are interesting).
Babbs
- 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 , only when I think the numbers are interesting).
Babbs
i think da is http://www.speedbit.com/
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
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
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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
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
Freedom isn't just a Puppy-Linux forum member!
- Lobster
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10 seconds!Bancobusto wrote:ICPUG, I fully second your opinion!
Now, with puppy, on the same machine, no changes, it opens up in less than 10 seconds.
Cheers
That is practically an eternity by Puppy standards.
There is in OO an option to load part of OO into memory (this is what MS does with Office and other apps- loads half its programs into memory and then claims they are faster than the opposition - all is fair in Love and world domination it seems . . . )
OO v2 is VERY stable (already even in beta) and looks a lot better (i.e. - generic) it also comes with a database - so something to look forward to.
People intrigued? An Open Office that is smaller than the official release, with an operating system thrown in. I wonder why?:roll:
Go Puppy!
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- Bancobusto
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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).....
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).....
Freedom isn't just a Puppy-Linux forum member!
Your server
I like your server for being able to churn out such huge numbers!
Or better still the owner for allowing that to happen
Or better still the owner for allowing that to happen
Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? [url=http://puppylinux.info/topic/freeoffice-2012-sfs]Get the sfs (English only)[/url].
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.
ISO Files: 14,082 - 773,625,364KB.
md5sum Files: 828 - 47KB.
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Day Hits Bandwidth (Kb)
16 3 2
17 2 1
18 151 3,321,374
19 3,289 130,689,475
20 2,916 113,851,139
21 2,223 83,048,575
22 1,540 60,348,296
23 1,250 44,534,628
24 1,770 69,437,880
25 1,200 40,039,561
26 2,752 104,426,902
27 1,663 70,228,953
28 1,193 22,539,121
29 812 9,821,618
30 463 6,389,851
31 794 14,953,971
August Numbers
Chubby Puppy 1.0.4 Download Site Statistics for August 2005:
ISO Files: 6,086 - 237,713,832KB.
md5sum Files: 370 - 23KB.
This chart will no longer be maintained here, I will keep the statistics going on the Wiki at:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/Puppy104StatsChubby
ISO Files: 6,086 - 237,713,832KB.
md5sum Files: 370 - 23KB.
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Day Hits Bandwidth (Kb)
1 783 13,363,371
2 1,040 28,795,908
3 758 22,318,395
4 1,145 9,644,792
5 1,803 27,023,529
6 504 8,958,804
7 399 8,353,343
8 1,231 46,025,518
9 521 10,580,388
10 915 16,564,392
11 708 15,591,676
12 433 7,415,863
13 610 21,888,103
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/Puppy104StatsChubby
Last edited by babbs on Tue 16 Aug 2005, 04:24, edited 4 times in total.
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.
Walt
Now that you point it out to me, the answer seems painfully obvious.
Now that you point it out to me, the answer seems painfully obvious.
oo writer printing
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've decided that it is easier to maintain the download stats for Chubby Puppy on the Wiki... With that in mind, I added a Chubby Puppy Download Stats page (presently updated through August 14th) at:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/Puppy104StatsChubby
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/Puppy104StatsChubby
I forgot to mention that since http://www.puppy.wise-guy.us/ was setup (now a day shy of one full month), the site numbers are:
1,020,391,407KB Transferred (One Terabyte)
33,587 Hits
16,922 Files downloaded
Although this is but one method to download Chubby Puppy, I'd say that its been a pretty good month of downloads. (Too bad we don't have any way of finding out the torrent download rates.)
1,020,391,407KB Transferred (One Terabyte)
33,587 Hits
16,922 Files downloaded
Although this is but one method to download Chubby Puppy, I'd say that its been a pretty good month of downloads. (Too bad we don't have any way of finding out the torrent download rates.)