[CentOS] Firefox esr repackage

[Phelps, Matthew]

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 5:39 AM J Martin Rushton via CentOS <
centos at centos.org> wrote:

> Hi Nux,
>
> The number will be higher than that.  Some large systems just download
> once to their own private mirror and install from there.  Where I used
> to work each download went to at least 6 systems, probably more.
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
This.

It's 154 systems for us.



> On 10/05/2019 10:12, Nux! wrote:
> > I maintain a desktop oriented repo for CentOS and last I checked a year
> or so ago, I got over 150k+ unique IPs with yum user agent downloading
> stuff from it.
> >
> > It's a bit anecdotal as perhaps not all are actual desktop users and
> some users were using multiple IPs (dhcp), but it shows there are quite a
> few users out there running CentOS for desktop purposes.
> >
> > There are desktop focused distros out there who do not even reach this
> kind of numbers. How many active users do you think Mageia or Linux Mint
> have?
> >
> > --
> > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology!
> >
> > Nux!
> > www.nux.ro
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> >> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, 10 May, 2019 05:40:38
> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Firefox esr repackage
> >
> >>> On 09/05/2019 09:09, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote:
> >>>>> The price we pay.. :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Do you say that paying RH customers already received new firefox
> >>>> packages?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Simon
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> No, Red Hat have not yet released any updates for Firefox. I doubt it's
> >>> a priority for them.
> >>
> >> Which makes me believe they don't expect anybody to use RHEL as a
> desktop
> >> system :-(
> >>
> >> Are there any numbers showing how RHEL is used? That would be
> interesting.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Simon
> >>
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