Subject: Re: Can you tell me how many downloads there have been of XFS?
From: Olaf =?iso-8859-2?Q?Fr=B1czyk?= <olaf@cbk.poznan.pl>
To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Laura Shepard <shepardl@sgi.com>,
   "'linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com'"
	 <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
   Eric Eppe <eeppe@paris.sgi.com>
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Date: 26 Jun 2002 10:25:39 +0200
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On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 09:50, Seth Mos wrote:
> At 15:51 25-6-2002 -0700, Laura Shepard wrote:
> 
> >Hi there,
> >
> >There is significant business planning interest in knowing our XFS Linux
> >installed base.
> >
> >I have a method of inferring this from the number of downloads.
> 
> That does not mean a thing.
> 
> - There are a number of people on this list that download the iso once and 
> setup a complete server farm afterwards.
> - I redistribute the iso/cd to friends who are also interested in XFS.
> - At work we downloaded the ISO once but we have 3 systems running from 
> that installer.
> - People download the newer iso to upgrade their distribution to the latest 
> version.
> 
Hi,

People don't need to download iso.
When I started to use XFS I downloaded patch.
Now I use CVS. And I think many other people don't use iso either. It
could be that the people using iso images are in minority.
And think about downloads from mirrors.

Regards,

Olaf Fraczyk