Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 30, 2007 09:32 PM
The fact is most people use dynamic IP's. So someone else using my ISP installs Fedora, they may have the same IP address I had when I installed it. Many people also use NAT routers. In fact there are some ISP's that use NAT's, so they share IP's among customers. Also, some people tend to go to a friends house to install a new operating system.
However, people also tend to reinstall or sometimes even install multiple versions (say 32 bit and 64 bit) on the same computer. If they are using dynamic IP addresses, each of theses installs may show-up multiple times.
I have also seen test labs, where the test machines are all fresh install images, restored for each test cycle. Each boot to a clean image might count as a separate install, or might not depending on the network configuration used...
It would probably be better to count the number of times a common update rpm is fully downloaded as a semi-reliable count.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 30, 2007 09:32 PMHowever, people also tend to reinstall or sometimes even install multiple versions (say 32 bit and 64 bit) on the same computer. If they are using dynamic IP addresses, each of theses installs may show-up multiple times.
I have also seen test labs, where the test machines are all fresh install images, restored for each test cycle. Each boot to a clean image might count as a separate install, or might not depending on the network configuration used...
It would probably be better to count the number of times a common update rpm is fully downloaded as a semi-reliable count.
Bill
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