I would say whats helped this a lot is the free media project. I'm not saying its the only thing but I think that has been one of the most successful projects launched to help non users to experience Linux and Fedora. On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 23:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > > "Red Hat's Fedora Core 6.0 Linux distribution has crossed the million > user milestone. Is it enough for the community-driven Linux distribution > to claim it's the most popular Linux version? > > Let's go to the stats. According to Fedora Project statistics, Fedora > Core 6.0 has averaged 9.4 new installations every minute since the > release of Red Hat's community driven distribution in late October" > > http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3652771 > > "On average, Red Hat is seeing over 95,000 Fedora Core 6 installs per > week, which is a very high rate for an operating system, Linux or not. > And the numbers are growing as time progresses, with recent weeks above > 100,000 new installs and the Christmas and Hanukkah holiday week > accounting for 130,000 downloads. Those numbers do not count > installations from mirror sites on the Internet that distribute Fedora > Core, by the way. (You can see the stats for Fedora Core 6 downloads on > this page.)" > > http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb010907-story07.html > > Rahul > > -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
