[Kde-pim] [kdepim-users] ratings on Akgregator

[Will Stephenson]

On Thursday 27 September 2007, Kevin Krammer said:
> On Thursday 27 September 2007, Frank Osterfeld wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 September 2007, John LoGioco wrote:
> > > Hi Frank - Thanks for the feedback.  After discussing your email we
> > > would like to explore what it would take to do the work.  Depending on
> > > the scope, we may contribute to the cost or effort of development.  In
> > > our experience, the integration process has been quite smooth so far.
> > >
> > > In an effort to help us know more about Akgregator, can you give me an
> > > idea of roughly how many downloads or users there are on Akgregator?
> >
> > Akregator is provided as part of KDE, which in turn is distributed by
> > Linux distributions. Thus people don't download Akregator themselves,
> > they usually find it in their Linux distribution after installation (and
> > it's unclear how many of those then actually use it regularily). More
> > reliable numbers would probably come out of some representative
> > subscription statistics, but I don't know any (maybe services like feed
> > burner have them?).
>
> If it is jsut for downloaded/installed, some of the distributions have
> programs which collect such statistics, though this only covers systems
> where the user/admin has explicitly enabled it.
>
> For Debian it is http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=akregator
> i.e. currently about 18% of participating systems have it installed.

For openSUSE, while we don't count overall installations, the recent openSUSE 
10.2 survey [1] had 27,642 respondents of whom 71.8% mainly use KDE, where 
Akregator is the default RSS reader and is in the default install.  You can 
look at Distrowatch surveys to look at openSUSE's placing within the overall 
Linux ecosystem.

Will

[1] 
http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/6/6c/Opensuse_survey_102_data_final.pdf

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