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bugman
 Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2131 Location: buffalo commons |
hey man, windows is a distro too . . . 
i noticed that though, very weird, maybe they're still trying to figure things out? egomoney, distrowatch needs yer help! [pretty colors] _________________ . . . the machines are clean and the machines are not corrupted - lee "scratch" perry |
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aarf
Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend |
have had this suspicion for a while. lobster spends his spare time clicking the links to make puppy rise in the rankings on the front page of distrowatch. this attached image points to something similar or else puppians are so happy that they don't need to go back to distrowatch to even look for anything else (well you gotta be optimistic).
_________________ ASUS EeePC Flare series 1025C 4x Intel Atom N2800 @ 1.86GHz RAM 2063MB 800x600p ATA 320G _-¤-_ <º))))><.¸¸.•´¯`•.#.•´¯`•.¸¸. ><((((º> |
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aarf
Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend |
more optimism: puppians use puppy derivatives which are showing up in the Unknown section. else awastats are not correctly identifying puppy genuine. also large numbers in the GNU Linux (unknown) section.
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WhoDo
 Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 4441 Location: Lake Macquarie NSW Australia |
No, this is an excellent sign! Those are potential Window$ refugees who are looking at Linux alternatives, or Linux users who are browsing Distrowatch from their corporate Window$ (work) machines! Either way its a very, VERY good sign IMHO. What would worry me greatly is if there were very few Window$ users accessing Distrowatch. That would be very bad news since it would mean that Puppy's target audience was limited to distro switching LXer's. _________________ Actions speak louder than words ... and they usually work when words don't! SIP:whodo@proxy01.sipphone.com; whodo@realsip.com |
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puppyluvr
 Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 3052 Location: Chickasha Oklahoma |
 Oh, I misunderstood.
I thought it ranked search querys, not the O.S. of the searcher.... |
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bugman
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2131 Location: buffalo commons |
take the page off the address http://distrowatch.com/awstats/ you'll get the full monty, including queries _________________ . . . the machines are clean and the machines are not corrupted - lee "scratch" perry |
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markofkane
 Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA |
Personally I need more excitement. More "tricks" sections to let a person try would make it more interesting for me. I've done almost everything I want to do with Puppy, except get Windows only programs to work with it. I am not ready to give up Haptek player or UltraHal, which only works in Windows. It's just me, I mean I'll still use Puppy as a hobby.
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dogle
Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 302 |
I want to share WhoDo's optimism, it's grand to see windoze users taking a look at Distrowatch, long may it continue and grow (Thanks Bugman for the heads-up). At the same time, without wishing to spoil the party, I'm uncomfortably aware that a hit rate roughly equivalent to Ubuntu users reflects only a tiny proportion of the Redmond victims .... still a long way to go on this one. Distrowatch is of course no indication of how many are actually using a distro and AFAIK there is just no way to get a handle on this - ideas, anyone? Back on topic, use of this forum: LateDeveloper may have touched upon a Great Truth -
Well, I've long regarded this forum as 'elite' in terms of courtesy, good humour, helpfulness and expertise; it's the dwindling bit that bothers me. I seem to be seeing fewer queries which I can attempt to answer these days - by which I mean the technical expertise of the newcomer seems to be escalating. Or else, I'm getting more stupid! Seriously, though, I feel it would be a great shame if Puppy, contrary to all intentions, were becoming a distro for the nerdly. I do hope that's not happening. |
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puppyluvr
Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 3052 Location: Chickasha Oklahoma |
Hello,
As I see it, we have a new influx of refugee`s, not from `Doze, but from other Distros.. They are Puppy newbies, but not Linux newbies.. I try not to feel bad for oversimplication, when someone takes offense, because, with just a few posts, or even one, we can be expected to assume that it is warranted.. I would rather that than to leave some poor soul confused, as I have been there myself...(initrd what??)
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Master_wrong
Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 455 |
I think that explain that pups aren't fleeing the kennels |
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ecomoney
 Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 2183 Location: Lincolnshire, England |
Source This isnt exactly good news.... The "word on the street" is that Puppy Linux would be used a lot more if only it was more "usable". _________________ Puppy Linux's Mission Sorry, my server is down atm! |
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bugman
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2131 Location: buffalo commons |
if it's so awful, WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE? _________________ . . . the machines are clean and the machines are not corrupted - lee "scratch" perry |
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WhoDo
Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 4441 Location: Lake Macquarie NSW Australia |
Well that depends on your perspective, doesn't it? At least these days Linux is being counted, and if you add MacOSX to the Linux figures it's being counted more than ever before. But then I'm a glass half full kinda guy!
Just for those who don't know, the "street" referred to here is the Scunthorpe High Street, and not some general "average street" despite ecomoney's habit of interpolating Scunthorpe opinion to the world stage. One day, Rob, you'll shock everyone and actually say something positive or (gasp, choke) actually contribute something other than your overrated opinion to Puppy development. One swallow does not make a summer any more than one sfs makes a contribution. _________________ Actions speak louder than words ... and they usually work when words don't! SIP:whodo@proxy01.sipphone.com; whodo@realsip.com |
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runtt21
 Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 1580 Location: BigD Texas |
ROFL " Scunthorpe High Street" you mean the street in front of his mom's house? Right. (Just joking) |
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James C
 Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4734 Location: Kentucky |
I wonder just who is responsible for putting the "word on the street"? |
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