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Eadwine Rose
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Re: DistroWatch

#31 Post by Eadwine Rose »

Not over there we're not. The drama involved.. ohhh *theatrical back of hand against forehead* the draaama.

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Re: DistroWatch

#32 Post by Adrian »

Many people are like "What is MX?" we are small and insignificant. I mean we do have a few million downloads (and that's only using SourceForge counters), but compared to Ubuntus, Fedoras, Debians, we are peanuts.
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Re: DistroWatch

#33 Post by Freja »

Adrian wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 1:13 am Many people are like "What is MX?" we are small and insignificant. I mean we do have a few million downloads (and that's only using SourceForge counters), but compared to Ubuntus, Fedoras, Debians, we are peanuts.
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There are something important to be lost by chasing scale, I think.
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Re: DistroWatch

#34 Post by asqwerth »

Freja wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 1:55 am
Said the traveler. "There's a kingdom. Hyrule. It's not a big country, but I like it. The people seem to be happy" :happy: :smiley2: :bedtime: :lol:

There are something important to be lost by chasing scale, I think.
Well said. In any case, we never "chased after scale".

MX the distro was made for the Mepis forum community to replace Mepis. It followed Mepis' ethos of being user friendly with useful graphical tools.

Other people started reviewing the distro and writing headlines.

One good thing that came out of that was the increased interest led to really cool people joining the community, including those who have since joined the Dev or Forum Mod teams, or are recognised forum helpers.
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#35 Post by DukeComposed »

Adrian wrote: Tue Dec 10, 2024 4:27 pm We made the slashdot page
Oh, how the mighty have fallen (obviously, I'm talking about Slashdot).
Way back when, Slashdot's motto was "News for nerds, stuff that matters" and I remember getting a significant portion of my tech updates from it.

Lately, I've noticed that I'm seeing its news stories showing up a day, or two or three, after I've already read the story somewhere else.

The fact that Slashdot is posting this story over a week after this thread posted about the DistroWatch ranking tells me that Slashdot isn't a breaking news source anymore and it probably hasn't been that way for a long time. I don't plan on unsubscribing from their RSS feed anytime soon, but if I see it first on Slashdot, I can reasonably suspect it's old news.
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#36 Post by FullScale4Me »

Eadwine Rose wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2024 7:09 am It is of no value at all, indeed.

Maybe they will get hit with DDOS attacks now instead of us, might be the advantage we gain.
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