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Just before  the eve of its next major release (Nov 25th, Fedora 10), the Linux distro produces new figures that Red Hat’s Fedora community Linux distribution has now 9.5 million to  10.5 million users Despite the fact that counting Linux users is tough enough as they don’t require to register themselves as on rival platform, Windows.

Ubuntu, the open source Linux distribution by canonical Inc, claims to have 8 million users.

The total number of users has always been an incredibly difficult number to measure, Paul Frields, Fedora’s project leader, If you total up all the unique IP’s … on Fedora 7, 8 and 9, it adds up to about 9.5 million boxes right now.

An important question is; are these open source companies trying to ramp up fights for user base rather than promoting the core essence of Open Source?

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