From a7f6747019445558075fe9578a18f0eb6577bae7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Fandrich Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:38:15 -0700 Subject: Mention the Debian Popularity Contest --- docs/FAQ | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index e2827a8dd..3afda56fa 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3