Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi,

Digg it:

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_sees_strong_adoption_in_first_week

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/11/12/fedora-8-sees-strong...

"The latest version of Fedora—codenamed Werewolf—was released last week. 
According to statistics released this morning by Red Hat, Fedora 8 has 
been already been installed over 54,000 times in only four days."

Rahul

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Digg it:
>  
>  http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_sees_strong_adoption_in_first_week
>  
>
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/11/12/fedora-8-sees-strong...
>
>  
>  
>  "The latest version of Fedora—codenamed Werewolf—was released last week. 
>  According to statistics released this morning by Red Hat, Fedora 8 has 
>  been already been installed over 54,000 times in only four days."
>  
>  Rahul
>   
Dugg, thanks Rahul.

I think we maybe could have more (of 'our own') people Digg stuff like this.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[H. Guémar]

Thanks, Rahul !

On Smolt, only 6,000 profiles have been sent. We should advertise
Smolt more aggressively.
There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles.

best regards
H. Guemar

[Rahul Sundaram]

H. Guémar wrote:
>  Thanks, Rahul !
>  
>  On Smolt, only 6,000 profiles have been sent. We should advertise
>  Smolt more aggressively.
>  There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles. 
The count is likely misleading since there is a bug in Fedora 8 that 
causes firstboot to not show up in some instances when the network is 
down and Smolt server itself was running into some issues for a while 
but yes, promoting Smolt would be a critical factor for the success of 
not just Fedora but the Linux community on the whole. The potentials are 
growing steadily.

Rahul

[Davidson Paulo]

2007/11/13, H. Guémar <karlthered2(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles.
Why not automatically send profiles (if network is up and internet is
reachable) after installation? Privacy issues?

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[Rahul Sundaram]

Davidson Rodrigues Paulo wrote:
>  2007/11/13, H. Guémar <karlthered2(a)gmail.com&gt;:
> > There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles.
>  
>  Why not automatically send profiles (if network is up and internet is
>  reachable) after installation? Privacy issues? 
Yes. Privacy issues.

Rahul

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Davidson Rodrigues Paulo wrote:
>  2007/11/13, H. Guémar <karlthered2(a)gmail.com&gt;:
> > There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles.
>  
>  Why not automatically send profiles (if network is up and internet is
>  reachable) after installation? Privacy issues?
>   
It is an opt-in mechanism, yes.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[Roberto Mizuuti]

What privacy issues? I mean, how could the knowledge of what hardware you
have on your box do any harm to you?

PS: I take it as a end-user machine. If your box is the main firewall of
your network, I would agree.

regards

Roberto Mizuuti

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>  
Date:
13/11/2007 09:13
Subject: Re: Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week
To: For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base
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>  
2007/11/13, H. Guémar <karlthered2(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles.
Why not automatically send profiles (if network is up and internet is
reachable) after installation? Privacy issues?

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[hymno]

Op dinsdag 13-11-2007 om 14:53 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Roberto
Mizuuti:
>  What privacy issues? I mean, how could the knowledge of what
> hardware
>  you have on your box do any harm to you?
>  
>  PS: I take it as a end-user machine. If your box is the main firewall
>  of your network, I would agree. 
>  
>  regards
>  
>  Roberto Mizuuti 
It's a matter of principle.
An OS ought not to be phoning home without specific user's knowlegde and
permission.
Doesn't matter if that OS is free software or proprietary.

herman

[Roberto Mizuuti]

I agree in that point. But I don't think they'll really call anyone.....
will they???

At least, never happened in Brazil...

:-P

regards



2007/11/13, hymno <crazymulgogi(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  Op dinsdag 13-11-2007 om 14:53 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Roberto
>  Mizuuti:
>  > What privacy issues? I mean, how could the knowledge of what hardware
>  > you have on your box do any harm to you?
>  >
>  > PS: I take it as a end-user machine. If your box is the main firewall
>  > of your network, I would agree.
>  >
>  > regards
>  >
>  > Roberto Mizuuti
>
>  It's a matter of principle.
>  An OS ought not to be phoning home without specific user's knowlegde and
>  permission.
>  Doesn't matter if that OS is free software or proprietary.
>
>  herman
>
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Davidson Rodrigues Paulo wrote:
>  2007/11/13, H. Guémar <karlthered2(a)gmail.com&gt;:
> > There are a lot of reason that people don't send their profiles.
>  
>  Why not automatically send profiles (if network is up and internet is
>  reachable) after installation? Privacy issues?
>

[Benjamin Lewis]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 09:32:28 am Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  Digg it:
>
>  http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_sees_strong_adoption_in_first_week
>
>  http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/11/12/fedora-8-sees-strong-a
> doption-in-first-week
>
>  "The latest version of Fedora—codenamed Werewolf—was released last week.
>  According to statistics released this morning by Red Hat, Fedora 8 has
>  been already been installed over 54,000 times in only four days."
>
>  Rahul 
I know its becoming a regular event me posting these, but the numbers always 
make interesting reading!

http://diggometer.benl.co.uk/?mode=Tabular;input=4113416;method=Id


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[Jef Spaleta]

On Nov 13, 2007 12:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Fedora_8_sees_strong_adoption_in_first_week
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/11/12/fedora-8-sees-strong...
>
>  "The latest version of Fedora—codenamed Werewolf—was released last week.
>  According to statistics released this morning by Red Hat, Fedora 8 has
>  been already been installed over 54,000 times in only four days." 
Poo, they didn't link to the mirrorlist map for F8.   Maybe I should
poke someone and get that map included on the stats page.

-jef"Hulk angry! Hulk smash"spaleta