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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Stats on OS being used
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On Wednesday 18 November 2015 19:29 Marc-André Laperle wrote:
> Ubuntu has Eclipse 3.8.1 [1] ... I hope the majority are not using this.
Why not? Our lab is since years on the 3.8.1/3.8.2 releases - they are rock solid and if you do not need Java 8 that's the best Eclipse you can get for an older RHEL release :-).
> [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/wily/eclipse
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> From: cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Doug Schaefer [dschaefer@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 November 2015 2:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Stats on OS being used
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> From: <cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>> on behalf of Mat Booth <mat.booth@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mat.booth@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> Reply-To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 1:20 PM
> To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Stats on OS being used
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> On 18 November 2015 at 16:24, Eike Stepper <stepper@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:stepper@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> This is what I figured for Mars (incl. milestones):
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> win32: 9,000,000
> macos: 740,000
> linux: 800,000
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> Cheers
> /Eike
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> I'm surprised by this, I always expect Linux to be under-represented by download stats due to distro packaging.
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> While thatâs true, I donât think Debian/Ubuntu/Mint have very up-to-date packages so those users have to download the latest from eclipse.org. And with apologies to our friends from Red Hat, Debian based distros still lead by a long shot.
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> In the past, the Mac numbers were very low compared to Linux. Interesting to see it catch up. It is a platform for our future growth and I think we need to make sure itâs getting enough love. Itâs funny, but you go to EclipseCon and I see way more Macâs than other platforms so youâd think that would already be the case.
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> Doug.
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