Jabber clients and OS usage stats (4)

After 2005, 2006 and 2007, I did it again. Here are my yearly stats about Jabber clients!

1244 users were online on the Apinc Jabber server when I ran the poll, and 1163 clients answered. Telepathy doesn’t seem to answer to jabber:iq:version, and it seems that a bug prevents Gajim from answering in some obscure cases (even when the “send info about OS” option is enabled).

Systems:

  • GNU/Linux 40%
  • Unknown 36% (Pidgin doesn’t report the OS)
  • Windows 17%
  • MacOS 5%
  • Others 0% (4 clients)

Clients:

  • Pidgin 27% (2007: gaim: 22%)
  • Gajim 20% (2007: 22%)
  • Psi 16% (2007: 24%)
  • Kopete 14% (2007: 11%)
  • libpurple (Adium) 6% (2007: 5%)
  • iChat 4% (2007: 9%)
  • Other clients with 2% or less: gajim, BitlBee, Miranda, Pandion, neos, pidgin (with ‘p’ instead of ‘P’), Trillian, Exodus, Coccinella, JabberLib, Tkabber, Gossip, Digsby Client, sim, Finch, JAJC, Bluejabb, Spark.

Tele2 sucks (or “QoS for dummies”)

I just discovered that, since I enabled the TV over DSL option, Tele2 limited my downstream bandwidth to 8mbps (instead of 20 mbps). All the time. Even when I don’t use the TV. Because allowing 20 mbps could have affected the quality of TV reception (when the TV is off?).

They proudly advertise that offer as:

  • unlimited DSL up to 20 mbps
  • 41 TV channels and 32 radio channels included

It seems that they forgot the “OR” in between.

PTS as a great tool for upstream developers

I recently realized how nice the Packages Tracking System is for upstream developers who want to follow the status of their software in Debian. By subscribing, they can easily monitor (and reply to) bug reports, and the general status of their software in Debian. I’m trying to help with coreutils maintainance, and it’s great to see upstream developers answer directly to bug reporters on Debian.

So, maintainers, tell your upstreams about the PTS! ;)

It might be a good idea to actually mention that use case on obvious places (not sure what the obvious places are, though).

mailing list for cross-distributions collaboration

A few months ago, I asked a set of questions on development mailing lists of a few GNU/Linux distributions. This resulted in very interesting discussions. As promised back then, all the answers from all distros I contacted can be read on the web or as an mbox file.

Also, Freedesktop.org kindly agreed to host a mailing list to ease discussions between distributions, and act as a central point of contact. You can subscribe, and post to distributions at lists dot freedesktop dot org.

This mailing list is for people involved (or interested) in the development of distributions. Questions that are on-topic are both technical and social/organizational issues, like:

  • How do you achieve graphical boot in your distro? Do you use some kind of dependancy-based or events-based boot?
  • How do you package both ruby 1.8, ruby 1.9 and jruby, or handle KDE vs KDE4?
  • Do you use a system that gives a limited set of rights to new contributors?

Off-topic stuff obviously include trolling about which distribution is the best one, or user support.

Don’t hesitate to forward this announcement to all interested parties. Let’s make this mailing list something useful together!

Also, I really apologize for procastinating announcing this list for sooo long. I’m really good at procastinating interesting stuff, it seems.