[osol-mktg] Re: OpenSolaris Download Statistics ?

[Glynn Foster]

Heya,

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 01:36 -0700, Patrick Finch wrote:
> So, we don't have a section on the site for download statistics,
> although clearly, it interests folks.  We aren't able to determine the
> total number of downloads because we have three venues for
> downloading: Sun Download Centre (or SDLC), Genuix.org and BitTorrent.
> Derek generated numbers for the first two, which are 5,050 and 3,117
> respectively (this reading was taken late in the day on Wedneday).
> But while BitTorrent is clearly a technology that we want to use, we
> don't have a way to measure the BitTorrent downloads, so, no total.
> If there's anyone in the community who has more experience with
> BitTorrent, or had any ideas on how to measure it, I'd be very
> interested to hear from them, and I expect Derek would too.  

So apparently this is possible somehow. I just talked to Luis Villa, a
guy responsible for setting up http://torrent.gnome.org/ and he pointed
me at http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu:6969/ which certainly looks like
it's automatically generated. He didn't know how those were generated
though, but I think he'll try and find out.

He said not to pass the duke.edu URL around if possible though - hence
why I've removed the opensolaris-mktg alias.


Glynn