Karsten Wade wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 18:46 +0100, Gerold Kassube wrote: > >>If we would like to watch statistics, we may not forget the statistics >>at distrowatch (http://www.distrowatch.com) which has a lot of settings >>which you can set ... >> >>The question in that case is: Should we have a look for such >>statistics? >>One of my professor at the university told us ever: Never trust a >>statistic which is not faked by yourself :-) > > > The reason to watch such statistics might be made as a corollary to your > professor's rule: "Never trust an interpretation of widely available > statistics that is not faked by yourself." > > In other words, people care about and watch such numbers. We need to > know what they are and have an interpretation for those numbers, at > minimum to stand testament to someone else's story about those numbers. > > For example, Fedora was not broken out from Red Hat for a long time. > Now I wonder, how much of Debian is Ubuntu? I know it's a popular > desktop OS, but when it is used as a Web server, does it present itself > as straight Debian, in terms of how Netcraft tracks? I now use ubuntu-server for personal web server and it represent itself as ubuntu and netcraft also recognise it as ubuntu too. I guess not many people use ubuntu for a web server yet. IMO ubuntu-server is pretty good though. > > - Karsten > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
