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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. Since all my machines are behind a NAT gateway... by pegr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make that 2,000,004...

  2. 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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  3. Re:Oddball by rishistar · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're confusing them with Star Trek movies?

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