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).bugman wrote:anyone who is interested in distrowatch rankings might want to take a peek at this:
http://distrowatch.com/awstats/awstats. ... etail.html
hate to be a bummer, but very few puppies visiting today . . .
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.puppyluvr wrote:
Whats even sadder is that 51% of the hits on "DISTRO"watch were for Windoze...
Disturbing....
take the page off the addresspuppyluvr wrote:
I thought it ranked search querys, not the O.S. of the searcher....
Forums need people who can accept that not everyone is at the same level as themselves, else the forum will dwindle to an elite few.
Hello,
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!ecomoney wrote:This isnt exactly good news....
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.ecomoney wrote:The "word on the street" is that Puppy Linux would be used a lot more if only it was more "usable".
)Maybe I should consult my babysitter.......I wonder just who is responsible for putting the "word on the street"?
Unfortunately, it doesn't!I think that explain that pups aren't fleeing the kennels
I carefully build their Puppy to suit their needs,
and their machine....And I never hear a peep...
these are also reasons for much optimism.how many XP forums did you ever visit or contribute to? Puppy is becoming more user friendly and the documentation is at a stage where less newbies are needing to ask questions. I'd say that is a very welcome development indeed. It is not puppy that is becoming more "nerdy" but the puppy forum community going in the nerdy direction which is therefore not a cause for concern but may be a cause for celebration.dogle wrote: 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.
