By chance, I checked my bandwidth usage stats for static.sunriseroad.net, hosted on DreamHost, which serves miscellaneous downloads like my hackergotchi, some pictures, some code downloads, among other things.
Well, my bandwidth usage for April so far was…(drumroll)…405 GB!
I couldn’t believe it! Both March and April were that high — about 40GB a day was the average. (Thanks to John who kindly lets me use his DreamHost account which has unlimited bandwidth.) How could that be? Well, I checked the access logs, and 99% of the access log is filled with basically the following, which sure surprised me:
201.221.x.x - - [23/Apr/2009:16:03:14 -0700] "GET /jeremy/releases/Wesnoth-1452.xo HTTP/1.0" 200 80241354 "http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008072400 OLPC/0.4.6-1.olpc3 (XO) Firefox/3.0"
Wow! Everyone is downloading Battle for Wesnoth for OLPC that I ported! I had no idea it was so popular.
Most of the user-agent strings contain “OLPC/0.4.6-1.olpc3″, which gives a pretty good indication that people are downloading it straight onto their XO using the built-in browser (which is contrary to my recommendation, but anyway). The majority of IPs are from Uruguay, so I suspect it is spreading like wildfire among schools there. Who says Linux doesn’t have viruses? 
To continue to keep the Children of the World entertained, I have already ported Wesnoth 1.6a to OLPC, but I haven’t released it yet. Hopefully I will release it to a testing audience in the coming weeks.
That is absolutely awesome. Wesnoth may become the world’s most popular game yet!