Interesting Ubuntu stats

[Net Llama!]

On 02/03/2006 07:04 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> Excerpt from a presentation by Mark Shuttleworth:
> 
> http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=64926
> 
> 
> "Though he did not specify numbers, Shuttleworth said the Philippines
> is one of the company's biggest distributorships in Asia Pacific. They
> were able to ship 57,000 CDs of Ubuntu Linux in the last 12 weeks,
> compared to just 52,000 in Australia and 16,000 in Japan."
> 
> Now that's one hell of a lot of shipments. If even 1/10 of those get
> installed, that's a big presence for Ubuntu.
> 
> Wonder what the stats are for the US and European areas?

Hate to burst your bubble, but those numbers sound rather low.  I 
believe that I read somewhere that Fedora Core gets downloaded about 50k 
times each day.

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