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Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week

Fedora 8 has been installed over 54,000 times since its release last week …

The latest version of Fedora—codenamed Werewolf—was released last week. According to statistics released this morning by Red Hat, Fedora 8 has been already been installed over 54,000 times in only four days.

These statistics are based on the number of unique IP addresses that have connected to Fedora's package update server via YUM. As the statistics page points out, these numbers are an approximation because many users behind a NAT or corporate proxy or who use a local mirror don't get counted and also because users with dynamic IP addresses could get counted more than once. Calculating the raw number of downloads for the Fedora release is much harder. No statistics are available for determining the number of ISO downloads from all of the Fedora mirrors, but the Fedora community has determined that over 52,000 downloads have been made via BitTorrent alone.

When Fedora 7 was launched, over 70,000 unique IPs were logged on Fedora's package update server within the first week. That number climbed to 1 million within 12 weeks after the release. So far, Fedora 8 is off to a strong start and will likely show a similar rate of ascent.

Channel Ars Technica