Comments on: More than 750,000 served: openSUSE is growing nicely

By: Zonker

Zonker — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:21:01 +0000

That may happen, we’ve talked to some people from Fedora about it, and it’s something we are interested in doing.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:19:53 +0000

I did. “We don’t know how many users are still running 10.2 or older versions, and we don’t know how many people have chosen not to be counted.”

By: Agemen

Agemen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:58:41 +0000

You’re right when you say that download is not the only way to get a distro… i’ve already give the 10.3 to some friends
And I guess i’m not the only one… The alionet community (follow the link, in french i’m afraid… but lots of english speakers) is always increasing too… People are coming…

By: Knusper

Knusper — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:03:16 +0000

I personally still use 10.2 and I will not upgrade soon… Installing a new OS is alwasys something which keeps me busy the whole day, beacause I have customized lot of stuff (first, I run fluxbox as a wm). So Installing a new version is no fun, it is always work. I usually install a new version of openSUSE, when I buy myself a new computer, so lastime I switched from 9.3 to 10.2. And I know at least some users who do it like me…
Of course, I have backups and all that stuff… But from inserting the cd to having verified that everything works as expected is still a long way (at least for me).
The cool thing about opensuse is, that it is stable as hell… So once you have installed it, it just works (and probably would never stop, at least sometimes I buy myself a faster machine).

By: apokryphos

apokryphos — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:27:28 +0000

Ah, also just a comment that http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE_Weekly_News is great for those interested in some regular statistics.

By: David Nielsen

David Nielsen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:20:02 +0000

You would be most welcome to help improve and deploy smolt, thus getting better metrics for us all.. you know you want to.

By: apokryphos

apokryphos — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:18:57 +0000

Might be worth mentioning that those are only registered installations — a thing that I think most users don’t bother with.

By: Refilwe

Refilwe — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:30:59 +0000

This is good news, but I’ve been wondering…is there a mechanism to remove repeat users? I have registered openSUSE 10.3 at least 3 times on the same machine. I think that the repeat users won’t compensate for the unregistered users, but I’m curious about this.