Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Download page

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com> wrote:
> Le 2010-12-07 12:05, Christian Lohmaier a écrit :
> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Carlos Jenkins<hastciberneo@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > 2010/12/7 Christian Lohmaier
> > > <lohmaier+ooofuture@googlemail.com<lohmaier%2Booofuture@googlemail.com>
> > > What statistics please?
> > >
> > > http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity
> >
> > distrowatch is hardly representative.
> >
> > > Put Mint, Ubuntu and Debian and you have the bigger chunk.
> >
> > Ubuntu and debian identify themselves, so what remains?
> >
> > >  Even if overall downloads would be more deb than rpm, then those with
> > > >
> > > "unknown" system would be rpm in majority,
> > >
> > > You're based on what to say that?
> >
> > Just look at the default browser in ubuntu or debian: The user agent
> > string is modified to contain ubuntu/debian. Thus all that
> > "statistics" is void, as it is not relevant for the decistion it is
> > used as argument for.
> >
> > Even if the distrowatch statistics would reflect the real user
> > distribution, the biggest hunk of Ubuntu already is out of the
> > question - and the bias strongs shifts towards rpm.
> >
> > ciao
> > Christian
>
> This does make sense. If the script recognizes without difficulty all of the deb distros, then 
> the default should be .rpm. Could someone test this with a deb distro + Google Chrome? Just to 
> make sure that the script recommends debs. This will have to be tested again if the default is 
> changed to .rpm.
>
> I get the same results as Sigrid on my Mandriva. It recommends deb when I use Chrome.

5 minutes ago I put 'linux' as default.

For Ubuntu + Chrome it recommends deb since the user agent does
contains "Ubuntu". Mine is:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Ubuntu/10.10 Chromium/7.0.517.44 Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7



> Marc
>
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