Re: F18 - huge drop in user numbers

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On 01/29/2013 10:30 AM, inode0 wrote:
While I am just using my intuition about human behavior now I suspect after an unusual period of two months with weekly reminders in the press that things were so wrong with F18 that it couldn't be released there are probably a significant number of users who are just being more cautious than normal at this point waiting to see how much luck other early adopters have with the release before diving in. At least that is my optimistic the sky isn't falling take on it at this point.

These stories might have to do something with it

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4MjI

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/23/230255/alan-cox-fedora-18-the-worst-red-hat-distro-switches-to-ubuntu

Alan Cox's reaction at

https://plus.google.com/111104121194250082892/posts/dEW3SeRT2ih

Also Anaconda in Fedora 18 seems to have some bad press as well and this one in particular seems to be referenced quite a bit

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-18-kde.html

Rahul
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