Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.co   
   !nntp.giganews.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn   
   post-sjc-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!span   
   y.localhost.net!news   
   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   
   Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com   
   Message-ID:    
   References:    
   User-Agent: pan 0.120 (Plate of Shrimp)   
   MIME-Version: 1.0   
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8   
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit   
   X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com   
   Lines: 20   
   Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com alt.os.linux.ubuntu:11100 co   
   p.os.linux.advocacy:1465844   
      
   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?   
      
      
   --    
   Do not contact me at kbjarnason@ncoldns.com   
   --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5   
    * Origin: Omicron Theta BBS (1:261/20)