[lubuntu-users] Hardware Usage Stats

[Joel Guzman]

Thank you very interesting 

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> On Aug 16, 2016, at 04:42, Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net> wrote:
> 
> I perform many hundreds of GNU/Linux installs both for corporate users
> and individuals. I can talk about my experience and policies in Spain:
> 
> First of all, I change "home" URL of the web browsers to other websites
> than distributor's and Google (DDG, Wikipedia, etc.) and disable APT
> stats feedback. This means no easy collecting of statistic data.
> 
> In automated preinstallations I use custom "SuperBogomips" and
> "UltraBogomips" measures automatically to decide distro, desktop and
> applications selection. For desktop selection (flavour in Ubuntu case)
> this is the precedence of variables that matter: CPU, RAM, 3D graphics,
> disk space.
> 
> As an average, Lubuntu is selected when RAM is between 512 and 1024MiB.
> Below this Debian-LXDE is selected and over this Ubuntu-Mate (or
> Debian-Mate) is selected. The upper limit depends on 3D FOSS
> acceleration before deciding Gnome or KDE.
> 
> Educational collectives are the biggest group of people who asks for old
> computer liberations (privative -> FOSS). Most individuals are victims
> of ignorance when viruses eat their normal computers (Windows) and,
> depending on "money level" they finish with computers (jump to
> only-mobile) or the "old" computer goes to trash just when they buy a
> new one.
> 
> Windows XP is still the most common OS I find in old computers that
> survive to the two main terrors for the user: viruses and new Windows
> usability chaos. Most of computers that arrives with Windows XP, go to
> LXDE-based installations. Next big group here is Mate desktop.
> 
> "How many boxes run a distro that's no longer supported?"
> Answer in proportion: Most Ubuntu 11.04 (Gnome2) in my case, because of
> "no-Unity" policy between 2011 and 2013, and the typical setting to not
> propose to the user upgrading the OS version.
> 
> "What display size is used on those machines?"
> For all groups I made installations to, desktop computers can guarantee
> 1280x1024 except touchscreeens typically used in POS (then the guarantee
> can be 1024x768). And notebook/netbook can guarantee 1024?x600 real
> pixels in display area.
> 
> There is no large demand of CD-ROM. This is in the inverse sense:
> When you are recovering a computer with CD-ROM drive only, you look for
> an LXDE-based distribution, and better if it's well-known, supported,
> and mature.
> 
> 
> El 14/08/16 a les 22:24, scrooyahoo at riseup.net ha escrit:
>> Does anyone know if there are stats available from Canonical or 3rd
>> party about hardware.
>> 
>> How many computers with PII, PIII, P4 CPU's etc.,  browsed the various
>> Ubuntu websites?
>> In what parts of the world are they used most
>> What OS are they using?
>> I came across several websites with some stats but nothing really useful
>> to form an opinion on questions like the 700MB capacity limit.
>> 
>> It's clear that it is a technical challenge to stay within that limit.
>> But it is not clear how big the demand is on a global scale to have a
>> capable OS that can be installed on old hardware without having to jump
>> trough hoops.
>> 
>> How many boxes still run XP? (or anything worse)
>> How many boxes run a distro that's no longer supported?
>> What display size is used on those machines?
>> 
>> Can it be estimated if DVD players are covered on most hardware, or will
>> there still be a large demand for CD-ROM?.
>> 
>> Regardless if the 700MB limit will be left behind it will be very
>> interesting to know how many people still rely on old hardware.
>> 
>> Canonical's data would be interesting, but an independent source would
>> also be good. Or Google's stats, if they still can be trusted... I'm
>> currently connected trough TOR so Google isn't much help to me....
> 
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