Wild and crazy times for the development tree

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Tue Mar 21 14:11:52 UTC 2006


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
>> DVD downloads outnumber CD downloads roughly 2:1 on x86, 5:1 on x86_64,
>> and 6:1 on ppc.
>
> Is that for fc5?
>
> I'd think the same statistic over the lifetime of a release would be
> more interesting.  I'd argue the people who participate during the
> release surge are a skewed sample of the overall population.

That, and the numbers quoted are only for the torrent downloads.  Not
everyone uses the torrent.  However, it's probably the easiest to collect
sample set.  Tracking it on the mirrors would suck ;)

josh




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