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Fedora Core 6 Hits 2 Million Installs

Posted by Hemos on from the grats-2-u dept.

spevack writes "Fedora Core 6 reached 2 million installations on Monday, approximately 4.5 months after its release. This number is based on unique IP addresses that connect back to Fedora's servers for updates, with more detailed discussion on their wiki's statistics page."

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  1. Re:Since all my machines are behind a NAT gateway. by linguizic · · Score: 4, Informative
    Your machines have already been accounted for, and then some (as it seems to me)FTA:

    Accuracy of metrics
    We believe it is reasonable to equate a "new IP address checking in" with "a new installation of FC6", with the following caveats:
    1. Users who have dynamic IP addresses will likely be counted multiple times, which inflates the number by some amount.
    2. Users who are behind NAT, corporate proxies, or who rsync updates to a local mirror before updating will not be counted at all.
    The anecdotal evidence that we receive from different groups, companies, and organizations suggests that group (2) is significantly larger than group (1). As such, we believe that the true numbers in the field are higher than the numbers on this page.
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  2. Hey all you trendy Ubuntu-ites! by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 1, Informative

    Us Fedora users are still here. :-D
    LEGION AARRRRRGHHHH

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  3. Re:Since my laptop has used 3 distinct IP's... by mmcgrath · · Score: 2, Informative

    Amusing at best, if you RTA then you'd know that we understand what you're saying, we've heard it before. We also know that there are companies out there (and governments) that have many thousands of installs that don't get counted at all because they all have private mirrors. The fact is Fedora is the only distro out there who's publically giving out numbers AND explaining exactly how we get them. How many installs does Ubuntu have? And where did they get that number from?

  4. Re:In-place upgrades recommended? by Intron · · Score: 2, Informative

    Upgrading FC4 to FC5 fixed some things for my desktop machine. Mostly from getting the newer firefox release. CUPS still can't configure a shared Windows printer, you need to use system-config-printer. They also dropped smbfs from FC5 and forgot to mention it in the release notes -- kind of a huge problem for me, since cifs won't mount samba shares. Given those problems I've been reluctant to upgrade to FC6. I may try kubuntu since I prefer KDE.

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  5. Re:In-place upgrades recommended? by hughk · · Score: 2, Informative

    The upgrades can work ok especially off CD but you can also accumulate a lot of cruft, old libraries and discontinued packages. I just tend to backup /etc (there are always some config files you want to resurrect) and blow away everything except /home and /usr/local (non-rpm stuff for me) and even the latter usually wants a rebuild to use the latest libraries.

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