Re: [Nbd] NBD Maintainer

[Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 07:33:43AM +0000, Tuomas Räsänen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue Jan 13 21:26:01 2015 GMT+0200, Paul Clements wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andrey Utkin
> > <andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Paul,
> > > could you please describe
> > 
> > > - how wide is NBD usage today (any estimation is ok),
> > 
> > It depends somewhat on who you consider to be users. There are two
> > groups of NBD "users":
> > 
> > 1) integrators and admins (who work directly with nbd)
> > 2) users of the systems and software that the first group creates
> > 
> > My guess is that the first group is in the hundreds. The second in the
> > thousands. NBD usage tends to fall into one the following classes:
> >
> 
> We (Opinsys) alone have approx. 45k end-users (teachers and students). So at least the second group is a lot bigger.

LTSP defaults to doing root-on-NBD, so there's a load of people there too.
E.g., the spanish Extramadura regional government used to have their own
Linux distribution that was used in local schools and which was based on
LTSP, for about 80K installations.

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