[Ambassadors] Re: Fedora 11: What do we expect?

[Ashiqur Rahman Angel]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/2/1 Ashiqur Rahman Angel <angel at linux.org.bd>:
> > Nop. People are using Ubuntu from all over the world. And that´s why
> Ubuntu
> > is most popular.
>
>
> Fedora is used all over the world!
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/maps/f10/f10.i386.png
>
> That is a snapshot of of unique ips that requested a mirror list from
> our MirrorManager system in the last day.
>
> Europe is  MORE densely populated per km^2 with Fedora installs than
> is the US Coasts. Fedora is not a US-only userbase.  And thanks to our
> mirrormanager stuff, we can actually visually that.  In fact we soon
> I'll be able to visualize where we are growing the fastest...I have
> the pieces in place now.
>
> If you want the longer view as to Fedora's popularity than you can read
> this:
>
> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3786726/Red+Hat+Fedora+Claims+Its+the+Leader+in+Linux.htm
>
> 9.5 million!  And we have an actually methodology that backs up the
> numbers we release to the press!
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics
>
> I dare you to find anyone who can will go on record as to how
> Canonical comes up with its Ubuntu install numbers.  I DARE YOU.
> Canonical reps have yet to go on record anywhere with the methodology
> of how they come up with the numbers they quote to the press.
>
> And for the record Canonical has stated the exact same install numbers
> for 3+ years now. 3+ years with absolutely no estimated growth..that
> is what Canonical is saying.  If you want to trust those numbers,
> that's your business.  But if you are going to talk about it here. I
> demand that you dig up the methodology as to how they are counting.
> Because we do everything we can to be transparent about it.... because
> we care about accuracy and not about hype.
>
> -jef
>
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Hi,
Thanks. After a long time, I have got some good news from you. And positive.
Again thanks.


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