| Fedora Core 6 clocks a million downloads in 10 weeks |
Jan. 08, 2007
 Only two and a half months after its Oct. 24 release, the Fedora Core 6.0 Linux project has clocked more than 1 million downloads, according to the project's leader. That works out to over nine downloads per minute, or 13,584 installations per day.
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The Fedora team isn't simply counting the number of downloads any more. Now it is using Cacti, an open-source data collection and graphing tool, which tracks and computes data associated with the release's downloads. Cacti tracks the number of unique IP addresses that check-in via yum for updates, rather than simply tracking the number of times FC6 is downloaded.
On the Fedora Core mailing list, project leader Max Spevack wrote, "This metric is much more useful than tracking downloads, because it demonstrates actual 'installed instances' of FC6 that are making a connection back to our servers in search of updated software." Additionally, Cacti manages data only for the Core package and does not track downloads for Fedora Extras or individual packages.
In other Fedora project news, Red Hat engineer and Fedora Project board member Bill Nottingham last week announced on the Fedora developer's list that "there will be no more releases of Fedora Core or Fedora Extras." Instead, Core and Extras will be merged together in Fedora 7.
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