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From: ray 
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Subject: Re: So how many people use ubuntu?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:52:05 -0700
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:30:27 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:

> ray wrote:
>> lesbian Hitler wrote:
>>
>>> Someone somewhere must at least be able to estimate how many
>>> different IPs
> 
>> I'm currently using it on three home computers and four at the local
>> library.
> 
> I can't imagine how anyone would know how to count;  considering the
> various ub distros and variants, and the fact that one user may be
> accessing the repositories from a different IP every time s/he goes
> online, while another site may be running 100 different installs/ users/
> or seats and accessing the repositories from the same IP.

Exactly. And how do you count users on the library internet computers?
There are four Ubuntu computers there. Busy most of the day and with a one
hour time limit - each machine probably sees at least half a dozen users
per day - I would expect at least a couple of hundred unique users over
the course of the year (for the four machines).

> 
> I have several different ub distros on several machines as one user, but
> each time I refresh the repositories it is done from the same IP for all
> of the machines.
> 
> Unless my IP changes, which it occasionally but rarely does.
> 
> How do you count Mint?  Fluxbuntu?  Linspire/Freespire after April?
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