Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 19, 2013 3:56 UTC (Wed) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126)
In reply to: Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget) by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

> Besides, a substantial number of RHEL customers don't run GNOME at all.

Why do you bring RHEL here? Its totally irrelevant to Fedora statistics.

> Fedora has also changed how it tracks connections so you will have to have a lot more qualifiers to add.

Like a million? Maybe.
Still the usage statistics are low.

I would say significant number of Fedora/Ubuntu users ran away to Linux mint and Arch Linux.

Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 19, 2013 4:10 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

" Why do you bring RHEL here? Its totally irrelevant to Fedora statistics."

It appears you missed the context. I am replying to a post that talks about both RHEL users and Fedora statistics.

"Still the usage statistics are low."

Fedora statistics on that page cannot track usage or users but only unique IP connections directly made to the public mirror manager for updates. Nothing more. There are dozens of different ways that these numbers can be undercounted or overcounted. It can vaguely show some general trends. Don't try to read too much into it.

Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 19, 2013 4:25 UTC (Wed) by hadrons123 (guest, #72126) [Link] (1 responses)

Well even if its under-counted it can't possibly be more than a million. If its over-counted its still low usage.

Red Hat discloses RHEL roadmap (TechTarget)

Posted Jun 19, 2013 4:37 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Maybe but I think you missed the point which is that these numbers are quite fuzzy and as I have noted in another post, mirror manager changes could very well explain the difference. Infrastructure knew that these were fuzzy numbers and Fedora Board asked Legal if a yum feature that enabled more accurate tracking could be enabled by default and the answer was that, it was risky due to international privacy laws and it was a costly process to quantify that risk and Fedora as a project decided we didn't want to do that. Even assuming that there is a significant change in these numbers, it is pretty hard to pinpoint the reason for that. Fedora as a distribution certainly doesn't try to judge usage by these numbers. Fedora project is planning to run a survey shortly which might help provide some answers.