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Fedora Core 6 Linux Eclipses 2M User Mark
Internetnews ^ | March 7th | Sean Michael Kerner

Posted on 03/07/2007 7:38:21 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing

Red Hat's Fedora Core 6 Linux distribution has reached another big milestone, racking up two million installed users barely two months after tallying 1 million installed users.

With the new threshold crossing, it is unclear whether Fedora 6 is the No. 1 Linux distribution in use today, but internetnews.com has learned that preliminary discussions are underway that could see Novell's OpenSUSE Linux distribution partner with Red Hat's Fedora to drive open statistics about Linux use.

(Excerpt) Read more at internetnews.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: foss; linux; oss
It hasn't been since Google's 2004 Zeitgeist that anyone tried to gauge the worldwide userbase side for Linux.

It'd be nice to see someone show us the 2007 standings. Perhaps it's coming soon.

Netstats only tracks the US market.

1 posted on 03/07/2007 7:38:24 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

I'm one of the millions. Use it at work and at home. Never had a problem with it. I use KDE as the desktop, FYI.


2 posted on 03/07/2007 7:40:02 AM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Bosco

Ditto here, but not upgraded to FC6 quite yet though.


3 posted on 03/07/2007 7:47:00 AM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Vista is the best thing that could have ever happened to Linux.


4 posted on 03/07/2007 7:48:37 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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There are a few folks here at work that have installed Vista, but only as necessary to test our installs, applications.

Even then company wide we still aren't installing IE7.

5 posted on 03/07/2007 8:04:34 AM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: dfwgator
Vista is the best thing that could have ever happened to Linux.

I am now confident that I will see the crossover point in my lifetime.
Linux will reach and eventually surprise Microshaft. VISTA did it for me.

Unless, of course, MS somehow manages to pull a rabbit of of the hat and spends billions to destroy Linux in court.

6 posted on 03/07/2007 9:45:22 AM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: dfwgator

I agree.

You need a super computer just to run the thing!


7 posted on 03/08/2007 6:02:17 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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To: Publius6961

^^^^^^^^^^^^Unless, of course, MS somehow manages to pull a rabbit of of the hat and spends billions to destroy Linux in court.^^^^^^^^^^

I don't think MS themselves wants to become SCO.

It didn't go over well the first time, history repeats itself.


8 posted on 03/08/2007 6:03:03 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
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