On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 08:46 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > (Reposting to f-d-l from my blog post last night. > http://domsch.com/blog/?p=85 includes a couple nice graphs to help > illustrate.) > > CDs are Dead. Long live CDs. > > I was running some stats on the Fedora 11 release, and an interesting > thing caught my eye. Very few people are downloading the six (or in > the case of PPC, seven) CDs to perform a Fedora install. Very Very > few. In fact, at most, six people downloaded split media CDs using the > Fedora mirror servers in the first few days. I find that hard to believe, unless you mean via. MirrorManager? I know I downloaded all six CD isos directly from the kernel.org mirror, within a few hours of GA. For previous releases I'd tended to use the torrent, to get them all, as it was somewhat easier (but slower). > This in contrast to the > over 234,000 direct downloads of DVDs and LiveCDs in the same amount > of time. BitTorrent statistics are a little better for CDs: 908 > completed downloads of the split media CDs, out of 41,235 total > downloads (or ~2.2 %). These are believable, but I'd still put money on the fact that more than 2.2% of users use CDs ... one of my machines here is an x86_64 Dell box, about 2 years old. And only has a CD drive. Now, sure, I normally only burn CD 1 ... and then use an exploded http install for anaconda. So I could probably make DVD only work, but it's much easier to just get the CDs. I'm also pretty sure my current laptop is DVD RO, but CD RW. -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
