Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, July 19, 2013 06:35:48 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 07/19/2013 06:12 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote: > > > systemd is "used regulardly" on about 1200 popcon submiters, upstart > > > on about 600 (this is even less than 100 from 2013-07-04, but what > > > happened!). > > > > Like several people pointed out before, the popcon entries for the > > Ubuntu upstart package pointed to Debian which at a particular time > > which resulted in wrong data being sent to popcon. > > > > The data that we have now is the actual data and it shows upstart > > isn't very popular. > > sysvinit 148865 99.83% > > Neither is systemd. The numbers for either are small enough to be > meaningless.
The 99.83% percentage is meaningless as sysvinit is typically installed even on those machines that use systemd. When considering the absolute numbers, you need to take into account that a large portion of popcon reporters have old installations or aren't in any sense developers or system administrators; those are not even potentially target audience for manually installing a new init system. For a different perspective, systemd has currently 1602 installs, and gcc-4.8 (has been default GCC version for over a month) has 3809. gdb has 27116 (a large portion of those likely old systems that are not being actively updated); systemd is over 5% of that. I think a better comparison would be to pick some packages that are typically manually installed by developers or sysadmins, choose only the systems which contain recently updated versions of those packages, and then see what portion of those systems have systemd installed. But AFAIK the public popcon data does not contain such information about package relationships. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1374258109.21442.34.camel@glyph.nonexistent.invalid
