Jupdown

It appears as though it is…

But saying it pings their servers isn’t quite a fair statement as it’s not some background service that opens a network connection, it sounds to me at least like it’s data that is sent to the Fedora repos once a week when you update your system?

Clients (DNF, PackageKit, …) have been modified so they add a countme variable in their requests to mirrors.fedoraproject.org once a week. This ends up in our webserver log data which lets us generate usage statistics.

Would be glad to be corrected on this though as I am a long time Fedora user now and I’m not overly fond of my data being collected by big corpo; it’s why I left Windows in the first place 🙄

Where does it say new product? I read their announcement and get the impression that it’s an update to an existing product:

“We’ve got one more big update for you, and you can tune into our YouTube channel August 26th at 8am PT to see what it is!”

Bold of you to assume that the line can’t go up further… just think of all those poor shareholders missing out on an even higher value! 😩