What users want...

[Harald Hoyer]

To give you an impression what users want and what maybe qualifies to being in 
Core, if it is FOSS :)

2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced

Browser of the Year - Firefox (77.12%)
Distribution of the Year - Slackware (19.36%)
LiveCD Distribution of the Year - Knoppix (57.69%)
Database of the Year - MySQL (53.51%)
Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (58.25%)
Window Manager of the Year - Fluxbox (31.14%)
Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (84.85%)
Word Processor of the Year - oowriter (63.75%)
Spreadsheet of the Year - oocalc (57.57%)
Audio Multimedia Application of the Year - XMMS (45.83%)
Video Multimedia Application of the Year - mplayer (49.85%)
Security App of the Year - nmap (37.14%)
Hardening App of the Year - SELinux (68.65%)
Editor of the Year - vi/vim (36.37%)
Web Development Editor of the Year - Quanta (50.88%)
IDE of the Year - Kdevelop (37.77%)
Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (47.60%)
Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (25.52%)
Commercial Game of the Year - UT2004 (38.86%)
Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (42.59%)
File Manager of the Year - Konqueror (30.59%)
Messaging App of the Year - Gaim (56.00%)
Graphics App of the Year - GIMP (72.82%)
MTA of the Year - PostFix (45.57%)

From: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/t286716.html

See also http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/f62 for details of each category.

Btw, Fedora is on number 2 of the distributions of choice.

[Michael A. Peters]

On 03/04/2005 08:56:08 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>  To give you an impression what users want and what maybe qualifies to
>  
>  being in Core, if it is FOSS :)
>  
>  2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced 
Those kind of things never impress me personally.

-- 
Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/

[Féliciano Matias]

Le vendredi 04 mars 2005 à 17:56 +0100, Harald Hoyer a écrit :
>  To give you an impression what users want and what maybe qualifies to
> being in 
>  Core, if it is FOSS :)
>  
>  2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced
>  
>  Browser of the Year - Firefox (77.12%)
>  Distribution of the Year - Slackware (19.36%) 
Ubuntu is the distribution of the *year* 2004. Sorry Fedora :-)

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:56:08PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>  2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced 
 ^^^^
[...]
>  Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (25.52%) 
Wow, givien that Frozen Bubble -- nice game that it is -- hasn't had a new
release since 1.0.0 in February 2003, that's kind of a sad statement on open
source games.


-- 
Matthew Miller           mattdm(a)mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>

[Jef Spaleta]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:40:19 -0500, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org&gt; wrote:
>  Wow, givien that Frozen Bubble -- nice game that it is -- hasn't
> had a new
>  release since 1.0.0 in February 2003, that's kind of a sad statement on open
>  source games. 
or its a sad statement about the cross-section of users who actually
responded/created the poll. If you actually take the time to read the
whole thread at linuxquestions you will see several interesting games
mentioned for inclusion into the poll that were not added for voting.

You need to take this sort of poll with a grain of salt... a grain the
size of a dump truck.  You can not make a strong statement using the
result of this poll... all you can say is that a majority of people
who felt like voting from within the community of registered
linuxquestions users chose frozen-bubble out of the available poll
choices.  The poll choices were not a best-of-breed selection by any
rational measure.  The list of available poll choices has the quality
of a slashdot poll... its a complete throw away poll. If you take this
poll or the results of this poll seriously... you probably read
theonion and consider it real news. There were only 764 people who
voted in that category, I wouldn't exactly call that number
representative of even the linuxquestions user community and i
definitely wouldn't even begin to suggest that 764 people represent
the open source community at large.

-jef"goes back to playing trigger.. with one of today's randomly
generated terrain maps"spaleta

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:40 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:56:08PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>  > 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced
>    ^^^^
>  [...]
>  > Open Source Game of the Year - Frozen Bubble (25.52%)
>  
>  Wow, givien that Frozen Bubble -- nice game that it is -- hasn't had a new
>  release since 1.0.0 in February 2003, that's kind of a sad statement on open
>  source games. 
Or maybe it's an indication of how seriously open source developers take
a 1.0.0 release ;-]

If it's not ready, then don't say it is...



Rodd

[Aaron C. de Bruyn]

On Friday 04 March 2005 08:56, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>  To give you an impression what users want and what maybe qualifies to
> being
>  in Core, if it is FOSS :)
>
>  2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced
>
>  Distribution of the Year - Slackware (19.36%) 
There was an ambulance agency on the west coast that needed to purchase a new 
vehicle.  They wanted to pick a vehicle that was the most 'visible' on the 
road so people would see it and not run into them.  They considered red, 
white, and even lime green vehicles.  To come to a decision, they poured over 
insurance statistics to find out what color ambulance has been in the least 
number of wrecks.
They picked the one color ambulance that had never been involved in an 
accident.

Three weeks ago they took delivery of their brand-new black ambulance.
It was promptly involved in an accident when someone backed into it...at 
night.

Now the statistics can read that 100% of all black ambulances have been 
involved in an accident.

Remember this: There are three types of lies; lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Slackware just got the 'pity vote' because everyone thought Andrew was going 
to die.  (It's a joke--laugh!)

-- 
Aaron C. de Bruyn
aaron(a)darkpixel.com

[Elliot Lee]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Harald Hoyer wrote:

>  To give you an impression what users want and what maybe qualifies to
> being in 
>  Core, if it is FOSS :) 
The survey is good at measuring which project can whip its users into the
biggest frenzy, but not much else.

>  2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced
Something that would be cool would be to build a voting/poll system that 
allows doing proper surveys of Fedora users. I've got ideas if anyone is 
interested in making it happen!

Best,
-- Elliot

[Andrew Overholt]

* Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com&gt; [2005-03-07 18:10]:
>  
>  Something that would be cool would be to build a voting/poll system that 
>  allows doing proper surveys of Fedora users. I've got ideas if anyone is 
>  interested in making it happen! 
Something like the Debian Popularity Contest?

http://popcon.debian.org

I'd be interested in implementing something similar for Fedora.

Andrew

[Michael Favia]

Andrew Overholt wrote:

> * Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com&gt; [2005-03-07 18:10]:
>   
>
> >Something that would be cool would be to build a voting/poll system that 
> >allows doing proper surveys of Fedora users. I've got ideas if anyone is 
> >interested in making it happen!
> >    
> >
>
> Something like the Debian Popularity Contest?
>
> http://popcon.debian.org
>
> I'd be interested in implementing something similar for Fedora.
>   
>  
Or [optional] Yum integration via proposed new plugin system to report 
installation statistics from kind souls.
-mf