[250x226]  In only 74 days after its official release, Fedora Core 6 has been downloaded over 1 million times (unique IPs): "As I write this, it is the 74th day since we released Zod. 74 days represents about 10.5 weeks, and so we're looking at an average of 95,086 new IP addresses each week. Comparing that to the first week's numbers show that our growth continues to be fairly consistent. If you do the math, you can also see that Zod is averaging 13,584 new installs per day, or 9.4 new installs every minute."

In order to get the Fedora Core 6 download statistics, the team uses Cacti (an open source data-collection and graphing software) to track the unique IP addresses that connected with yum to receive updates. "This metric is much more useful than tracking downloads, because it demonstrates actual 'installed instances' of FC6 that are making a connection back to our servers in search of updated software." - says Max Spevack, the Fedora Project leader.

Max Spevack is thrilled about these good metrics of Fedora Core 6 (Zod), especially because they were missing in previous releases of Fedora Linux distribution. Released in June 2005, Fedora Core 4 has no statistical data, as for the Fedora Core 5 release, the only statistics were about the BitTorrent downloads. Zod has achieved in no more than 74 days about 63% of the total BitTorrent activity that Bordeaux has seen since its release on 20 March 2006. In conclusion, Fedora Core 6 reached 1 million unique users faster than any previous release, according to comments made on the fedora-announce mailing list by Max Spevack.