building of D for...

gleb gleb at asd.iao.ru
Wed Mar 9 03:32:36 PST 2011


Jordi Sayol wrote:


> 
> What's the approximate total amount of people that uses ALT-Linux?

Hard to estimate, i do afraid.

If overlook some statistic of ALT's forum 
(http://forum.altlinux.org/index.php?action=stats), there are circa 6680 of 
*registered* users in the forum and even more in subscription lists 
(http://lists.altlinux.org/). In another side, ALT is the second mentioned 
distribution in xUSSR (after Ubuntu, of course). And finally, it is base of 
the state project of implementation of free and open software for school and 
goverment use. By statistic of 2008, there are circa 70000 general (1 -- 11 
years of education) schools in Russia 
(http://medportal.ru/enc/parentschildren/school/16/), so common quantity of 
pupil may be estimated in 20 000 000, so as minimum 9 000 000 of pupils 
should teach IT. 30% of schools should use Linux exclusively or together 
with Windows. So may mention upper estimate as 2 700 000 active users. As 
far as i can imagine by discussions, 60% of that choose ALT and derivatives, 
rest prefer Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Edubuntu). Some percents selects Open SuSe and 
Mandriva. So rough and optimistic estimation of summary ALT's user base may 
be circa 1 620 000 of pupils. Of cource, many of that 30% of schools does 
not use any Lniux at all, so estimation should be reduced, but from the 
other side, there are many professional peoples in IT and companies besides 
education that defenitelly do.

But in any case, estimated user base is substantively large and may be 
interested to propagate technology of D among them. :)


-- 

    /GLeb

* Institute of Atmospheric Optics, SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia


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