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Netstat -vat by Sean Michael Kerner (bio)

A command line view of IT



Red Hat Fedora Linux 10 nears 1 million user mark

By Sean Michael Kerner on February 25, 2009 9:23 AM
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From the 'that's a lot of machines' files:

Red Hat's Fedora Linux 10 has been out since the end of November 2008, and is now hovering around the 1 million installations mark. Fedora uses a system to measure active installations that check the update repositories in order to determine how many installations are in use.

When combined with other actively used Fedora distributions as of Feb 16, 2009, Fedora's counting method reports 12,188,598 Fedora Linux installations across Fedora 7,8,9 and 10 releases.

On Fedora 10 in particular, in contrast with adoption for Fedora 9 for a similar period, Fed 10 is at 115 percent adoption (that is a greater adoption rate for the first 12 weeks of release for Fed 10 than Fed 9).

Perhaps more interesting though is the fact that the bulk of Fedora's counted installation remain on Fedora 8 which was released in November of 2007.

It just goes to show you that though Fedora Linux is a fast moving distribution with up to two releases a year, a lot of users don't move with every release.

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4 Comments

David Legg said:

So why have many Fedora users decided to stay with Fedora 8 for 2 years?

a) Everything in F8 works. It's a completely stable distribution that has only just fallen off the end of the support conveyor-belt.
b) You can run OOo V3 and Firefox 3 on F8 without any hassle.
c) KDE users got a bit of a shock in F9 because KDE 4 wasn't really finished, so many must have gone back to F8 for that reason.
d) F10 suffered the same KDE problem as F9 for a while, so others will have delayed updating.
e) There are other fundamental bits missing from F10, like the gnome XDMCP/login set-up GUI.
d) A lot of the wireless stuff which worked happily in F8 out of the box got broken in F9 and F10.

When these problems are fixed, Fedora 8 will wither on the vine. I should think that a lot of Fedora KDE users will now be looking carefully at Kubuntu, though ...

February 26, 2009 4:33 AM
PLC said:

Now if only I could get Fedora to install instead of hanging up and freezing the mouse (on 3 different computers) I find that the main fault with Linux is in the basics; no Linux will install, OpenSuse live, gives text screen and asks for password, Mandriva, refuses to boot at all, Ubuntu garbled screen, Debian, a no show, etc., etc the only ones that I have successfully installed and can actually use are Xandros and Syllable.

February 26, 2009 8:42 AM
anonymous said:

I'd upgrade to every newer version if it came on a yearly basis. 6 monthly is too fast for me.

March 2, 2009 4:25 PM
Ralph Kenyon said:

Fedora 10 moved the X-window to run in TTY-1; so I'm sticking with Fedora 9, which still uses TTY-7.

March 7, 2009 12:37 PM

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