On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 07:05 -0600, Clint Savage wrote: > Nicu Buculei wrote: > > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> > >> The statistics pages have more details but the uptake is pretty good > >> so far. The smolt data is also pretty interesting. > >> > >> > >> http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/07/03/hows-fedora-7-faring/ > > > > So anyone tries to speculate why F7 installs are at about 80% of the > > previous FC6 installs? Summer is not a good time when people update > > their distro? Is Fedora market share shrinking? Was FC6 such a good > > distro people hesitate to upgrade from? > > I would give myself a boring reply along the lines of "only two > > releases is not enough data to draw a conclusion about trends" but I > > also would like a bit of speculation. > > > Nicu, > > I, for one, am not seeing this result in my little world, although the > statistics say its less adopted than FC6. As part of my job, I > interact with 40-50 of people a month as a technical instructor. I > casually state that I am a big Open Source guy and indeed a Fedora > Ambassador. I offer up the LiveCDs and the DVDs regularly and they are > snatched up amazingly fast. I think GNU/Linux (Fedora in this case) has > always been a grass roots effort, and I've been treating it as such. > The grass and roots have just gotten bigger. I know a lot of people haven't upgraded if they have ATI cards. The state of the ati drivers is horrible however the opensource drivers are improving. I wouldn't say that is the only reason however I would say thats a contributing factor. FC6 was very stable and while there are a few hickups with bugs thats always the case then by the end of the release fedora 7 will be stable and it will be back at square one. My $0.02 Marc -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
