From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750727AbWG0OoH (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:44:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750705AbWG0OoG (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:44:06 -0400 Received: from host36-195-149-62.serverdedicati.aruba.it ([62.149.195.36]:1211 "EHLO mx.cpushare.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750727AbWG0OoF (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:44:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:45:29 +0200 From: andrea@cpushare.com To: Adrian Bunk Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , Hans Reiser , Nikita Danilov , Rene Rebe , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion Message-ID: <20060727144529.GB6877@opteron.random> References: <20060726160604.GO32243@opteron.random> <20060726170236.GD31172@fieldses.org> <20060726172029.GS32243@opteron.random> <20060726205022.GI23701@stusta.de> <20060726211741.GU32243@opteron.random> <20060727065603.GJ23701@stusta.de> <20060727115229.GD32243@opteron.random> <20060727121811.GN23701@stusta.de> <20060727131032.GE32243@opteron.random> <20060727135823.GA19718@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060727135823.GA19718@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:58:23PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > What about the following statement: > > "Gentoo is 47 times as popular as SuSE among KLive users (a service > offered by a SuSE employee gathering data from many users worldwide)." > > Is any part of this information wrong? > > Is it therefore OK to put this information to /. ? > > Surely not, but you might get the point. I already told you once that such a claim is totally bogus because KLive _doesn't_ record anything about the _userland_, it only records kernel stuff. It's not Dlive (distributon Live), it's KLive and K stands for _kernel_ not distributions. Not sure how many times I'll have to remind you about this. Also note currently the current cumulative uptime ratio is 1:18 not 1:47 and even the ratio of the number of users is 1:42. The only claim based on actual facts you can try to publish on the press is this: "The Gentoo kernels are 18 times more popular than the SUSE kernels among KLive users (a service offered in his spare time by a SUSE contractor that tries to gather data from many users worldwide)." You can also add: "Another data point is that among the KLive users the Fedora kernels are 24 times less popular then Gentoo ones." Free to advertise the above if you find it interesting. > This isn't against cpushare.com, it's against publishing things people > will easily misinterpret. I think people deserve to think for themself without you acting as censorship filter for them.