• @caseyweederman
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    39 months ago

    Local repo mirrors are pretty standard in the enterprise world are they not?

    • Turun
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      Any company invested enough to host a local mirror will not give a blank install of Ubuntu to their employees though.

      You can argue that other distros are popular as well, but when it comes to the “I’ve heard of this Linux thing, let’s try it out” crowd Ubuntu is the goto option, no doubt about it. And the impact on this crowd is exactly what is discussed in the article.

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        9 months ago

        Hundreds of thousands of people using eg. Debian plus a software profile plus a sources.list file with an intranet address don’t count as using Debian?
        I’m not arguing about the contents of the article, I’m discussing specifically the relevance of generating usage statistics based on IP hits and ISO downloads.

        • Turun
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          19 months ago

          For the purpose of the article: no they don’t.

          If you want to discuss telemetry or how to measure popularity of Linux Distros, please submit and link me an appropriate post, I’ll be happy to discuss it there. But it simply adds nothing to the discussion here.