On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:31:51PM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > Given the size of those numbers, I think FEDORA-XXXXXXXX is probably entirely > reasonable. Agreed. "FED-" is too ambiguous. "FEDORA-", or even better "Fedora-" is much nicer. > The obvious answer could be to use FED-XXXXXXXXXXX which would be the same as > Windows. Or we could opt to sacrifice three characters worth of entropy in > exchange for using the whole word: FEDORA-XXXXXXXX. In the first case, we would > have a 1 in 1.3x10^17 chance of colliding (assuming perfect random number > generation). In the second case, it would be 1 in ~2.2x10^12. We can also use (non-repeating) "-" in the random part, which gives 1 in ~2.8x10^12. Fedora does not have that many installations, and note that this only has to be unique within installation, so I think the odds are pretty good. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
