Interesting Ubuntu stats

[Collins Richey]

On 2/3/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

No danger of bubble burst. I'm just happy to see so many potential new
Linux users. Also, since in many circles the assumption for some time
has been that RH=Linux, it's good to see a Debian distro getting some
publicity.

--
Collins Richey
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