Distrowatch rating

alef · 2011-02-14 12:40:06

luc wrote:

as this seems to be obsolete I want to point out that there still is a reference to ubuntu in the short description. Does anyone know who can change this?

it's correct now

rstrcogburn · 2011-02-14 16:33:18

I must admit that I try to vote for it every day on DistroWatch. These aren't honest votes though. The honest ones would be linux newcommers or oldtimer's brushing up on the latest distrobutions or just in-betweeners keeping up with current ones. I have a strange suspicion that buntu and dora spam their ratings though, so I'm taking up the mantra for bang to do the same tongue we're movin up 18!!

vicshrike · 2012-05-12 11:29:12

Our much beloved #! is going for cyber space domination, #23, 6 month/#17, 7days, that happens while we are just having fun. cool

machinebacon · 2012-05-12 11:41:32

The higher the DW ranking, the more ______ the distro is big_smile

Fill in whatever adjective you like big_smile

vicshrike · 2012-05-12 11:46:42

^With #! being the exception? big_smile

machinebacon · 2012-05-12 11:50:53

^ #! should actually not be listed on such a site big_smile

vicshrike · 2012-05-12 12:07:18

^A site for itself then, always rated #1 wink

Milozzy · 2012-05-12 13:22:26

OT: ^ Why you guys put a ^ at the beginning of your posts?

EnochRoot · 2012-05-12 14:52:31

Meant to be like an arrow to the post above if replying to the previous poster I think

Milozzy · 2012-05-12 14:57:17

EnochRoot wrote:

Meant to be like an arrow to the post above if replying to the previous poster I think

^Oh nice! Thanks!

pvsage · 2012-05-12 15:44:48

machinebacon wrote:

The higher the DW ranking, the more ______ the distro is
Fill in whatever adjective you like

"bitchin'" cool

vicshrike wrote:

^With #! being the exception?

CrunchBang ain't bitchin'? tongue

vicshrike · 2012-10-23 16:31:08

bitchin` or not, #19 big_smile

pvsage · 2012-10-23 20:06:16

^ I think I could write a very small shell script involving wget that would significantly up that up. wink

lcafiero · 2012-10-23 21:08:56

A mild caveat: The Distrowatch rankings are based solely on page hits -- nothing more -- and while it means people are looking at the distro's page, it doesn't mean everyone who does so is downloading the distro itself.

However (and you knew that was coming) . . . While the number of looks at the page doesn't always (or hardly ever) translates into an equal number of downloads, having a ranking that is in the top 100 is still pretty outstanding for any distro, since there are about 320 active distros out there.

So what makes it even more outstanding for us is that the CrunchBang ranking usually hovers between the 20s and the 40s, and spikes when there's a new image or a new version (just as the *buntus and Fedora spike every six months when they're released). As far as I'm concerned, all we need is for people to give us a look, and hopefully to have people download CrunchBang -- we can take it from there.

That said, these numbers are good, despite not knowing what the downloads are.

TL;DR version: Distrowatch.com rankings are based on page hits only, not downloads, but even by this metric we're pretty dang popular big_smile

pvsage · 2012-10-23 21:48:06

^ In other words, what I said. wink Or do they filter out multiple daily hits from the same IP? (I'm sure there's a FAQ/wiki area at distrowatch...)

lcafiero · 2012-10-23 22:03:51

Yep, in full agreement, pvsage.

merelyjim · 2012-10-23 22:48:08

I know this isn't the point, but when I go looking for a different distro, I think we have a much better resource in http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … anonymous/
Looking at distrowatch never seems to provide the info I'm looking for, but say, machinebacon knows freakin' everything about "distro X" if he's used it.
Let them keep their rankings...

rstrcogburn · 2012-10-24 01:24:50

it's been kewl to see the sub-twenty ranking of bang lately.

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