Internet News writes about a major mark for Fedora 10 release. Fedora remains the only distribution to publish it's statistics and gathering methods openly and transparently. In any case, they reached 1 million active installations of Fedora Linux 10.
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How did Canonical come up with its 8 million Ubuntu user claim back in 2006?
http://www.redherring.com/Home/20497
How did Canonical come up with the same 8 million Ubuntu user claim in September of 2008?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/27/shuttleworth_ubuntu_commitm...
Noone from Canonical will go on record explaining how they come up with userbase estimates to the press which show absolutely no Ubuntu growth from 2006-2008.
You may dispute the Fedora numbers, you may even dispute the methodology...but point to another linux distribution who publishes a better methodology on how they come up with their usage numbers. If you can't trust Fedora's numbers, then you sure as hell don't have enough information to trust Canonical's claim.
Fedora cares about getting an accurate picture of the overall linux user install base. We want people to look at our methodology for counting users, we want best practises to be adopted by other distributions so we can get a very good comprehensive picture on the size and growth of the global linux userbase. That is why all the stuff we've done that goes into generating those statistics is openly available for reuse. We treat the client logs as sensitive data, but the processing scripts and the MirrorManager framework by which we collect client information is completely open for others to replicate and to integrate into their distributions.
You want your Ubuntu usage to count in a userbase size statistics that will hold up to scrutiny...encourage Canonical to publish a methodology and a set of trendable statistics by adapting Fedora's MirrorManager service.
-jef
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2005-07-06
I installed Fedora 10... Then removed it the next day and put Ubuntu back on that machine.
But, did they count that as an active install ?
How can they judge USE and TEST ?