How many users does Fedora have?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Dec 1 11:38:24 UTC 2014


Am 01.12.2014 um 12:36 schrieb Alec Leamas:
> 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

it is helpful because the fact it is impossible will shutdown that 
discussion because - well, it's impossible

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