although i have installed debian on 5 machines in the last two years and multiple times for testing on a couple of them, i don't think i have been counted on popcon and most likely never will be.
the reasons, multiply: 3 of the five have never gone outside of local network, and in fact only recently one has gone that far. the other two are mobile and complicated to set up mail so i don't, i use free beer services like gmail and yahoo and i don't download like with pop or anything. note this also really created hassles with bugreports. but if popcon would put the reports in the local admin mail i would forward them by hand - it doesn't. probably the only thing i would use an intel machine for would be as mail server, IF i had a fixed internet adress but it don't and have no plans for one (free wireless/mobile is how i go). if there is a way to deal with all this i welcome suggestions, especially if it is amenable to automation. but for now i wouldn't trust these numbers worth a stick. seeing for even one example most ppcs are macs and most macs are laptop and are the most numerous unix machines... i would rather trust the mailing list numbers to estimate percentage shares. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
