Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 31, 2007 12:40 AM
"Cacti tracks the number of unique IP addresses that connect to yum with a new installation of FC6 in search of updates"
They are using update hits plus a unique identifier to measure how many Fedora installations are being updated rather than how many times the install<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.iso is downloaded. The end result being a count of how many installs since each one is expected to update at least once.
I may be reading this wrong but either way, I'm on a different distro so it's just news in passing.
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Fedora seems to agree with you
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 31, 2007 12:40 AMThey are using update hits plus a unique identifier to measure how many Fedora installations are being updated rather than how many times the install<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.iso is downloaded. The end result being a count of how many installs since each one is expected to update at least once.
I may be reading this wrong but either way, I'm on a different distro so it's just news in passing.
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