[Lazarus] Stats

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Tue Aug 11 08:50:53 CEST 2015


Marc Santhoff wrote:
> On So, 2015-08-09 at 20:08 +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>> On 2015-08-09 16:50, micsch at gmail.com wrote:
>>> the sourceforge stats are pretty impressive
>> I would be interested to know what the "unknown" list of Top OSes
>> contain. Which OSes would register such a large group?
> 
> Count FreeBSD in. I'm using it and have never installed the ports,
> always downloads via the web sites of fpc and lazarus.

Also anybody downloading using wget etc., since this can be more 
resilient than a browser. This sort of thing usually won't return a user 
agent string that looks like IE/Firefox by default, although it can 
often be told to.

>> The Android download count, also in Top OSes, is also surprising. What,
>> do people download FPC from their mobile phones?
> 
> Maybe some Raspberry Pi or the like, those can be running Android.

Possibly downloading onto a 'phone or tablet because it's what's got the 
Internet connection (3G or whatever) before transferring to a real computer.

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