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Fedora 9 is dead. Long Live Fedora 10 and 11? From the 'short life span' files:
From its initial creation out of what was once the Red Hat Linux distribution, Fedora has always been a fast moving distribution. As part of that fast moving approach, older releases don't live all that long. The current policy is that releases will live only until one month after the N-2 (next two) release is out. Fedora 11 came out one month ago and now its time for Fedora 9 to go away. Officially speaking, this is the end of life for Fedora 9, which was released in May of 2008. Fedora 9 was an important release for Fedora and Red Hat as it helped to re-affirm Red Hat's commitment to the Linux desktop, following some communication earlier that year that seemed to imply that Red Hat was getting out of the desktop business. It will be interesting to see as the weeks go by, how many Fedora 9 users drop off and become Fedora 11 users. According to the most recent Fedora stats (June 1, 09), there are over 3 million installations of Fedora 9. What's interesting about Fedora stats when you dig into them is the fact that a number of the older releases, like Fedora 7 for example, which hit its end of life on June 13, 2008, was still being used on Jun 1, 2009 by 3.7 million installations (if I'm reading the data correctly -- and if I'm not, pls comment below). I know that for those that want a longer term Red Hat based Linux support there is CentOS on the free side and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle's Enterprise Linux on the paid side. Still, it's interesting to see how users actually do (or don't) migrate from one release to the next on a fast moving Linux distribution. At one point there was an effort called Fedora Legacy which aimed to provide longer term support for old releases (that effort no longer exists). 0 TrackBacksListed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Fedora 9 is dead. Long Live Fedora 10 and 11?. TrackBack URL for this entry: https://swarm.jupitermedia.com/mt-tb.cgi/8441 1 CommentsLeave a comment |
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you are not reading the Fedora statistics correctly.
There are no exposed stats which attempt to present a snapshot of "active" clients at any given moment. What Fedora does do is to sum unique ip addresses which contacting the MirrorManager service looking for repository mirrorlists.
The "Total repository connections" table is a summary of those accumulated unique ip stats.
These cannot be read as current activity. They are historical sums.
To tease out post-EOL interest in F7-F9, someone would need to deep dive into the log information and pull out additional information to trend unique ip growth.
-jef