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Fedora Metrics Help Whole Linux Community
lisah writes "When Fedora released Fedora Core 6 late last year, the team decided to track the number of users with unique IP addresses who connected to yum in search of updates for a new installation of FC6. According to the data they collected, FC6 crossed the one-million user mark in just 74 days. Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack says that while it's great to use metrics to better understand what users want, the real value lies in its ability to encourage hardware vendors to more offer more Linux-oriented goods and services. Spevack told Linux.com: '[W]e always say we wish hardware vendors had more [Linux-capable] drivers. Well, if you can go to them and say, "Hey, there's millions of people using this," then maybe they will listen. In the real world, you need data to prove your case. Well, here it is.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.
In the real world, you need data to prove your case.
Tell that to District Attorney Mike Nifong.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
centos is a sweet RedHat enterprise linux clone with full compatiblity to it. rhel is a true enterprise class operating sysetm and it's based on fedora core. i don't know why anybody would want to run anything else. I started out with redhat 4.0 and i have to say, redhat puts out the best distribution out there. If I were to dual boot with something other than centos, i'd choose debian, ubuntu, or slackware. From what I hear, the other two enterprise linux distributions out there Mandriva Enterprise and Suse Enterpise don't release the source code as readily as RedHat does, hence the RedHat Enterprise Linux code base has greater market saturation through projects like Centos along with other rhel clones.