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From: Kelsey Bjarnason 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: So how many people use ubuntu?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:55:11 -0800
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:30:53 +1000, lesbian Hitler wrote:

> Someone somewhere must at least be able to estimate how many different IPs
> log into the standard universe, multiverse, main and restricted repositories.
> 
> Would it be in the tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Is it
> anywhere near a million yet?

Assume I have one IP which connects regularly.  Is that one "use" of
Ubuntu?  Even if that one network pull feeds 10 or 50 or 100 machines?

I see no reason to chew up 50 times the bandwidth necessary to handle
updates, when I can download them once, store them locally, and feed all
the other machines off them.  So, count your IPs all you want; what does
this tell you?  If you see a million unique IPs, does this mean a million
Ubuntu machines?  Or five million?  Or 100 million?


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