Fedora 7 "Moonshine": Freedom vs. Ease-of-Use (Part 1)

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 3 17:53:52 UTC 2007


Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> On 03/06/07, Thomas Chung <tchung at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On 6/2/07, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc at mwiriadi.id.au> wrote:
>> > The article comes from here.
>> >
>> > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/16894
>> >
>> > "Fedora 7, a.k.a. "Moonshine," released on May 31, is an odd duck. On
>> > the one hand, it's hugely popular. If you need to be convinced of that,
>> > take a look at the number of people viewing the officially-sanctioned
>> > FedoraForum.org at any given time - as I write this, it's almost 7,000
>> > people. Visit your local Barnes & Noble Booksellers (that's a big
>> > bookstore chain in the U.S.) and you'll see quite a few books about
>> > Fedora on the shelves. (This, by itself, is a big plus for Linux 
>> newbies
>> > — Fedora may be the best-documented distro available)."
>>
>> BTW, it's  over "93,000" members as of today in FedoraForum.org
>> It can't be "7,000" members even if the article was written a month ago.
>> Perhaps, the author meant to say "70,000" members instead. :)
>> Regards,
> 
> Maybe he meant "Online Now"? Although it's not very clear if he did!

That is pretty clear to me. Definitely a reference to number of online 
users in the forum.

Rahul




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