I saw a site for counting linux users.
Another for counting ubuntu users.
Is there any counter for openSuSE users ?
As far as I know, NO.
Thank you !
There isn’t any such thing.
The closest you could get is the openSure forum user count, but that would only include the people who explicitly registered here.
And that would be nowhere near the real figures. In 2008 there was an estimate of 1.2 million openSUSE users. Since linux’s share has grown, I’d expect the number of openSUSE users has grown as well.
We have more no of users, It is good to start a counter.
Maybo you’ll find additional information (such as unique IP) here : Statistics - openSUSE
That’s good count !
But they are generated entirely from the apache logs of download.opensuse.org;
I am expecting to get a “Registered user”.
I hope we will get this in future !
mopidevi raju wrote:
> I am expecting to get a “Registered user”.
but, there is no requirement to be a “Registered user”…
additionally:
-there is no requirement to register as a user
-counting downloads is great, but:
–how many are never installed
–or used by two people on one machine
–or used by one person to install on four machines for six people
–or one person loads on 10 machines in a classroom
–or 25 machines in a sales force
–or 1000 machines in a international business headquarters
–or 2,000 disks for a magazine enclosure
–or from 25 downloads, 25 different publishers make 25,000 (or
125,000) disks included with how-to books sold in several lands by
so, now what?
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palladium
Yeah ! It’s really true !
That’s happen with me also …
I installed openSuSE 11.0 for my 14 friends. This is only a single case. But there are many people like me !
That’s why I want to count them ! If there is counter we can join!
If there is a counter … for this big community !
popularity increases !
Many people who is new to linux, will choose a distro according to popularity basis only !
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
can give you some indication of which distros are popular and which are not with the page hit ranking on the right.
Order will change when one of the big ones has just released a new version though.
actually it gives no idea of the relative popularity between the distros…
instead it counts the page hits on distro watch…which only shows
which pages are hit more 
nothing else…
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palladium
@Axeia; That site counts traffic on opensuse domains. Based on that information ranking’s are given.
Point was that that’s as close as you’re going to get to something to indicate popularity.
and since their page hit rankings, the domain is the same for all.
Downloads are impossible to count anyway. (Just google for the controversy around current recordholder for downloads per day Firefox)
Wow, how curious! Looking at Distrowatch top ten distros at DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. I notice that ALL distros have a “Suggested <distroname> alternatives” line in their characteristics, EXCEPT openSUSE.
In my book it reads as “openSUSE is irreplaceable” :):)
Wow, if their only con for openSUSE is the patent deal with Microsoft, then I’d say openSUSE is doing really well. Heck I’ve gotten plenty of my friends hooked on KDE for the looks and YAST for how easy it is to install software. Even my parents are satisfied with openSUSE as the default OS on their computer, and they use to yell at me if I even touched it before because “It’s not windows, and we’re use to that.” Also, the last time I checked, when I start my computer, openSUSE 11.2 KDE4 takes up 160MB. Sure if I enable all the desktop search options of KDE then it’s bloated (300-400MB), but that’s about the only place I can see where any utilities are bloated, and that’s KDE, not openSUSE. That’s just my 2 cents.
Take Care,
Ian
Very interesting… yes, there are simply no alternatives to using openSuse rotfl!
Once you use it, you’ll neither need nor want alternatives.
I’m inclined to agree…
Could have a package with only a text file marking as an important actualization and count how many times it is downloaded, so only installed desktops will counted.