Reasons to preseve X on tty7

[Rahul Sundaram]

R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>>> source: http://distrowatch.com/
>>
>> Try finding something more relevant than the number of people clicking 
>> a particular distrowatch page everyday.
> 
> Keep your venom -- I decline to ingest it.  It is easy to cast stones, 
> but the point remains that there are tangible numbers, and that the 'one 
> hand' argument is bunk.

Distrowatch page hits are not useful at all to gather general metrics. 
Telling you that requires ingesting no venom. Just accepting facts.

> I offered the best metric I know of, one which requires sustained effort 
> to rig, and (having provided both the lead site's hosting for a while, 
> and also a mirror), I know a bit about how such 'padding' is detectable 
> with the code then used.
> 
> Find a better metric yourself, and tell us all.


Oh, we already did for Fedora.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Metrics
http://smolts.org/

OpenSUSE is adopting is. EPEL includes packages for EL. Ask your 
favourite distribution to include it as well.

Also

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics

#1 thing to understand: There is no precise numbers anywhere and nothing 
even close to "good enough" as a universal solution to that problem yet.

Rahul