Re: Ubuntu popcon trivia

[Scott Ritchie]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Did you know that almost as many people have Wine
> installed as have Sun's Java 6 installed?
>
> wget http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst.gz
> gunzip by_inst.gz
> awk '/wine |sun-java6-jre/' by_inst | head
>
> rank  name              inst        vote    old      recent old-files
> 1208  sun-java6-jre   390519   68179 313376  7354  1610 (Matthias
> Klose)
> 1321  wine               338377  42513 282338 13460    66 (Scott
> Ritchie)
>
> The highest 'inst' value in the file is 871814, so
> it looks like about 39% of machines subscribed
> to popcon have wine installed.

Whoa.  That's about 4 times as high as a few months ago, percentage-wise.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie