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penOffice.org exceeds 1.2 million downloads per week
without even a hyped-up launch. Firefox 3 will have exceeded 20 million downloads shortly (a week after its release).
With all due respect, OpenSUSE's big release (11.x) is nowhere near some of the leaders of the GNU/Linux pack in terms of appeal. And
it shows:
* more people downloaded the 64bit DVD (+4%)
* 63% more downloads in the first 30 hours
* approx. 65.000 installations so far, for 10.3 we had 40.000 after 6 days
A huge summary of OpenSUSE 11.0 reviews we will deliver at the end of this week. Meanwhile, someone from the #phoronix channel tries to use guilt as a deterrent against criticism. Some hours ago:
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vadi2> Hey man, just a question. If you're on Gnome, when you go to Places - Search for Files, select 'File System' for Look in folder, and for search options, make it contains the text "novell", do you get any documents shown?
<vadi2> If you're on KDE, the equivalent of this
<schestowitz> What do you see if you try this?
<vadi2> A lot of contributions by Novell to my linux desktop. You?
<schestowitz> Oh, I get it..
<vadi2> np, just a small thing I found out yesterday :)
Well, OpenSUSE is not our target; Novell is. OpenSUSE will be fine even without Novell's leadership. The mental association
does it no good anyway.
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Comments
Francis
2008-06-25 20:33:43
You keep saying openSUSE isn't your target but you keep attacking it as if it was. It's also pretty surprising to see your last story on openSUSE "reviews", where in that story you tried to portray a completely negative portrayal of the release, ignoring the very obvious fact that EVERY _major_ news website (LWN, Linux.com, Ars) has been extremely positive about the release. I have actually never seen this happen for _any_ distribution's release.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-25 20:46:53
Xanadu
2008-06-25 22:02:42
Anonymous
2008-06-26 05:19:41
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-26 05:23:32
@ Anonymous: the site drove almost 3GB of traffic yesterday.
somebadomby
2008-06-26 08:54:09
The actual growth here will be much higher than 50%.
If your intention was to let SUSE look bad it really has backfired.
Josh Bell
2008-06-26 12:55:21
Anonymous
2008-06-26 12:58:10
How can we know that this digit is not inflated? :-) Honestly, that's not much. Most of that are likely bots and feed readers. And much traffic goes for your silly graphics you keep on reposting all the time.
Reputable sites define their reach by unique visitors per day, not GB.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-26 13:08:23
@somebadomby:
No, it hasn't.
That's normal when there is a major release. OpenSUSE 10.3's release had an identical effect.
Thanks for the insinuation that we are not reputable. Why are you here in this Web site again? :-) :-)
Anonymous
2008-06-26 18:18:14
Why do people visit sites with jokes? For their entertainment.
Josh Bell
2008-06-26 18:35:16
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-26 19:13:50
"With all due respect, OpenSUSE’s big release (11.x) is nowhere near some of the leaders of the GNU/Linux pack in terms of appeal."
I predict that OpenSUSE will stay where it is now.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html
Josh Bell
2008-06-26 20:13:51
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-26 20:23:02
Your point is valid, but please wait until Distrowatch 'settles'. This always happens when there are major releases and media 'outbreaks'.
Francis
2008-06-26 21:17:52
If you also judge the way that it's been changing over the last couple of months my prediction is that openSUSE will also overtake Ubuntu for the 3-month viewing within the next 30 days. Ubuntu does seem to get more hits at release time than openSUSE's 11.0 did, so it may still not be enough for the 6-month-viewing, like I said.
Roy, you do realise that your quote about openSUSE 11.x "being no way near other distros" was written in August 2007, that's 10 months before its actual release. I mean -- is a little intellectual integrity too much to ask for? Come on guy.