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RE: 7.5 release? - How you can help
- From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- To: Erik Jessen <ejessen at adelphia dot net>
- Cc: 'Hans Ronne' <hronne at telia dot com>, <xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:06:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: 7.5 release? - How you can help
Hi Erik,
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Erik Jessen wrote:
> Well, just to ask, how many people on this list know anybody still
> running 98?
I know some who still do. I think that is primarily used on
laptops nowadays. 98 (including 98SE) enjoyed a somewhat extended
lifetime because Me wasn't exactly Microsoft's best release (to
put it nicely). And a lot of organizations I have dealt with run
on a 4 to 5 year upgrade cycle, which means 98 is still out
there, and, yes, people do install games on their organizations'
computers.
> What about putting counters on the downloads for the various OSes, so
> you can tell what OSes are going out of favor? This is only of
> long-term use, of course, and won't help with source-code downloads.
Well, actually browsers usually do provide not only their name,
but also the OS they are running on. If one assumes that the
browser OS is the same one which Xconq is going to be compiled on,
then one can get a fairly decent picture about what platforms are
being used for Xconq.
But since Xconq seems to be a fairly low volume download, one
would need to have an extended sampling period to create accurate
statistics. And the sampling period would likely have to be longer
than the time it would take to fix issues on the platform(s) in
question.
Regards,
Eric