On 6/1/05, Michael Kress <kress@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Johnny Hughes schrieb: > > > > >169,788 distinct IP addresses have asked for updates since 04-Mar-2005 > >from mirror.centos.org > > <snip> Holy moly that's a lot. <snip> > Apart from that I don't think, it's a good measure to count the IP > addresses "since". A better measure might be to release _one_ update and > to count, how many guys download that update within say two weeks, > morover to ask the mirror guys to give away their access data for this > update. There's a couple of flaws with a "distinct IP" count: 1. Not all servers get updated (I know of 3 or 4 CentOS servers that probably haven't been updated in months. 2. One machine can get multiple IPs 3. Many machines can look line one IP However, distinct IP does give us a rough estimate of installs. And even if it's off by 30% one way or another - it's a bigger number than I thought. Greg