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They seem to have counted downloads, rather than site visitors.

The decline in Sourceforge downloads by Linux users is likely to be down to the fact that most will simply grab the package from their distro's repository, rather than getting it from SF. If I download, say, FileZilla on my Windows machine, I get it via Sourceforge. On my Ubuntu box, it's in the repo.

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Yeah that's how I get almost all the software for my GNU/Linux boxen, all from repositories. And if I'm hacking on something just pull it out from Git or BZR or SVN or similar. Many projects also left SF since they started with changes that made it a bit of pain to use.

Actually what was counted was the OS of the people who downloaded software projects.

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