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authorDan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>2010-09-09 12:38:15 -0700
committerDan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>2010-09-09 12:38:15 -0700
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Mention the Debian Popularity Contest
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@@ -323,6 +323,12 @@ FAQ
based web servers. A guess is that a fair amount of these Linux
installations have curl installed.
+ The Debian project maintains statistics on packages installed by people
+ who have voluntarily run their package counting application. In mid-2010,
+ libcurl3 was installed on over 55000 such systems (62% of reporting systems)
+ and was one of the 320 most popular installed packages (out of about 107000
+ possible packages).
+
All this taken together, there is no doubt that there are millions of
(lib)curl users.
@@ -331,6 +337,7 @@ FAQ
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/using/apps.html
http://counter.li.org/estimates.php
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedora_makes_rapid_progress.html
+ http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=curl
1.11 Why don't you update ca-bundle.crt