[ Thanks to doloresp for this link.
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“Fedora announced this month that by using a tracking tool to
monitor unique IP addresses, it was able to determine that Fedora
Core 6 now has more than one million users. What does all this
metric gathering mean for future Fedora releases? Moreover, what
does it mean for the Linux community at large? The answer on both
counts: plenty.“Fedora decided to track metrics with the release of Fedora Core
6 (FC6) because the lack of data from previous releases made it
difficult to be sure what users value in Fedora Core
packages…”