[K12OSN] How many K12LTSP installations?
Eric Harrison
eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Tue Feb 1 05:21:45 UTC 2005
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Bryant Patten wrote:
> Hello All -
>
> Anyone care to guess at how many K12LTSP installations exist both
> nationally and internationally?
>
> I was asked that question today while touting its virtues and realized
> I didn't have a decent answer.
>
> A follow up question (for bonus points) would be the average number of
> users on an installation so we could give out the total number of people using
> it on a given day.
I've always been tempted to install something that would "phone home"
providing details about how K12LTSP is being used. No mattered how hard
I tried, I have not come up with a way to do it that I'd want running on my
own systems ;-)
As it is, there are a few metrics we can see.
First is the reports of big deployments. Jim already mentioned the
80,000 & growing in South Africa. There was recently an article that
Chile is deploying K12LTSP into 600 more schools. and so on.
I have my ftp/http/rsync logs, but no stats from the many mirrors.
A quick grep of the recent logs shows about 60,000 downloads & about
11,000 that have run apt, up2date, or yum against my repositories. Of
course most of the big deployments I know of keep their own mirrors/
repositories.
-Eric
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