Fedora Metrics Help Whole Linux Community

lisah writes "When Fedora released Fedora Core 6 late last year, the team decided to track the number of users with unique IP addresses who connected to yum in search of updates for a new installation of FC6. According to the data they collected, FC6 crossed the one-million user mark in just 74 days. Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack says that while it's great to use metrics to better understand what users want, the real value lies in its ability to encourage hardware vendors to more offer more Linux-oriented goods and services. Spevack told Linux.com: '[W]e always say we wish hardware vendors had more [Linux-capable] drivers. Well, if you can go to them and say, "Hey, there's millions of people using this," then maybe they will listen. In the real world, you need data to prove your case. Well, here it is.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

But....

[CaymanIslandCarpedie]

Doesn't collecting data make you evil?

Re:Sweet

[quantaman]

I'm ready to move.So where should we put the city ?

Well I was thinking Canada or Europe, heck why not Luxembourg [wikipedia.org]? With a population of only 465,000 we'd made a majority of the population and be able to form a governmenmt.

Welcome to Fedoraland!

Re:RH response to Ubuntu's 8 million number?

[Anonymous Coward]

Now what are the hardware vendors waiting for? Permission from Microsoft?

Yes.

Re:Sweet

[gclef]

Fedoraland? Bah. Tuxembourg!