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From: Roy Schestowitz 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: So how many people use ubuntu?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:31:46 +0000
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*'OuW}a9Oq}: 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?
> 
> I read its around a million billion

Mark Shuttleworth said it's over 8 million. And that was last year... only
counting those who connect to Canonical's server.

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