Quote: Florian Hubold wrote on Fri, 08 October 2010 15:46
> 
> What would be interesting is to count the mageia installations. Create
> a GUID for every system at install time, and then later on when
> internet
> is available, count the machine via this GUID.
> 
> WDYT?

No way, that's way to Orwellian, it would give Mageia a really bad
reputation.

A rough count of installs can be done by counting the number of unique IPs
accessing the updates, of course this won't be precise (proxies, etc) but
it should give a rough estimate, there is no need for precise numbers.

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