Fri, 04 Mar 2005

Relative popularity of Debian by arch for February 2005

Marco provided February usage data for ftp.it.debian.org. This is still the only host for which we have public data, if someone has pointers for the us, uk, fr, de, jp, ... hosts, please come forward with it. More data is better.

Saving Marco's data to a text file that is read and transformed by a few lines of R yields a nice table with relative usage percentages (taking out the 'all' non-binary architecture) as well as a cumulative sum of relative usage:

edd@chibud:/tmp> R --slave < it.feb.R
        files.downloaded  percent cumulpct
i386             1762483  96.6123  96.6123
powerpc            34420   1.8868  98.4991
ia64               18224   0.9990  99.4980
hppa                5985   0.3281  99.8261
sparc               1293   0.0709  99.8970
m68k                 987   0.0541  99.9511
alpha                824   0.0452  99.9963
arm                   45   0.0025  99.9987
mips                  14   0.0008  99.9995
mipsel                 6   0.0003  99.9998
s390                   3   0.0002 100.0000
total            1824284 100.0000       NA

In other words, the top seven architectures cover 99.996 percent of downloads whereas the remaining four combined are a relatively scant 0.004 percent, or about one in twenty five thousand.

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