How many users does Fedora have?

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 11:36:18 UTC 2014


On 01/12/14 12:29, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 01.12.2014 um 12:26 schrieb Alec Leamas:

>> Lets face it: I envy those who can measure the usage from a download
>> counter or so. Can we have something similar?
>
> no - you have no clue which mirror was used without explicit tracking in
> YUM/DNF and given the noise about the recent Firefox changes you won't
> even consider seriously tracking inside the distribution
>
> additionally downloads are meaningless - many setups with more than one
> machine have their local mirrors and a download can be 1, 10 or 50
> installed instances

I hesitated when writing my initial message, didn't include this:

Feedback why this is impossible isn't really helpful here, most of us 
are aware of the limitations. Given that we agree on the overall goals 
(?), useful input is what can be done, and how.

Cheers!

--alec


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