Fedora Project Leader Takes Dig at Shuttleworth, Questions Ubuntu Numbers

In the latest installment, Fedora leader Max Spevack takes a shot at Ubuntu leader Mark Shuttleworth, who last year estimated Ubuntu's distribution at eight million users and, recently, re-estimated that down to about six million:

Spevack then points to this statistics page and says the Fedora community "makes a good-faith attempt at statistical transparency." The numbers seem to indicate that anywhere from 65,000 to 177,000 unique visitors a week download Fedora.

Ubuntu has been on somewhat of a roll this year, including an agreement by Dell, Round Rock, Texas, to pre-load the flavor of Linux on some of its notebooks and desktops. But, to date, there have been no independently certified numbers on Ubuntu's installed base.