Trisquel Makes It
Woot - Trisquel finally made it into Distrowatch's Top 100 distros as #97.
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This is fantastic news!
Finally people are starting to value freedom.
There's still a long way to go, though. gnewsense is at position 62. It would be great to get at least one free GNU distro into the top 50!
I wonder why gnewsense is above trisquel, when Trisquel is developed more often than gnewsense.
Besides, Debian and Fedora are well positioned and those are also freedom friendly distros, so I think people are actually noticing how important that is. I understand why Mint is number 1, I used to have Mint too, for people who come from windows, it is really a easy distro and helpful for non techy people. I gave up MInt for myself, but I understand why it stands number 1 for other people.
I already have used GNewSense and my mousepad felt quite buggy. Also, it was not compatible with WPA, so I gave up on it. For those reasons, I don't like it.
On 20/11/13 04:06, gnuser wrote:
> I wonder why gnewsense is above trisquel, when Trisquel is developed
> more often than gnewsense.
I don't think Distrowatch is very accurate, as it bases its popularity
statistics on page hit counts. Which basically means that more people
are reading about gNewSense on Distrowatch rather than Trisquel.
It's definitely good that users are reading about free distros anyway. :-)
Andrew.
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This is old news... very old news.
Trisquel has been in the top 100 for a while now... in fact, I think it's been slowly dropping in the distrowatch rankings over the past 12 months or so
IMO there's a significant element of how recent the distros last
release was in the Distrowatch rankings. Which given the central
portion of their homepage is given over to recycling distros' release
announcements most recent first is unsurprising. Or to be more
direct, I consider it irrelevant media froth. If it were otherwise
then Raspbian which will be on the majority of the >1M Raspberry Pis
shipped over the past 18 months would be listed in the top 100 above
many of the distros that are there. (An observation, I'm not
recommending the RPi).
Here is an (old) article studying what the "HPD" metrics actually catches.
Elementary #16 ...jeez.