March 7, 2007 Fedora Core 6 Linux Eclipses 2M User Mark By Sean Michael Kerner Red Hat's Fedora Core 6 Linux distribution has reached another big milestone, racking up two million installed users barely two months after tallying 1 million installed users. With the new threshold crossing, it is unclear whether Fedora 6 is the No. 1 Linux distribution in use today, but internetnews.com has learned that preliminary discussions are underway that could see Novell's OpenSUSE Linux distribution partner with Red Hat's Fedora to drive open statistics about Linux use. Rather than tracking downloads, Fedora tracks the number of unique IP addresses that check in with Fedora's repositories for updates, Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack told internetnews.com. By measuring unique IP addresses, Fedora is able to determine active installed instances of Fedora Core 6. Fedora then posts the results on its stats wiki. For the Fedora 7 release, which is currently in development, developers are setting the bar even higher with a new profiling tool called Smolt. Spevack said Smolt is an anonymous, opt-in profiling tool that lets Fedora know what hardware users have in addition to knowing the installed base number. Full article at; http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3663951 taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
