From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 14 20:14:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA09228 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09209; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:14:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA06538; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:43:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971015124358.26418@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:43:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , jlemon@americantv.com, jkb@best.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web page References: <20988.876811315@time.cdrom.com> <199710141649.LAA04964@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199710141649.LAA04964@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 11:49:06AM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 11:49:06AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard said: >>> Question to all, particularly jkh: This guy claims 6,000,000 users of >>> Linux, obviously a very optimistic figure. If we're optimistic, how >>> high could we push the number of FreeBSD users without leaving the >>> realms of reality? >> >> Considering that the 6M figure has already left the realm of reality >> far, far behind, I guess we could say that we had 3 million users with >> equal justification. It wouldn't change the fact that it was utterly >> false, of course, but if you're trying to compete on an equal footing, >> well... :-) >> > Ahhh... they must be counting a user as a WWW page hit :-). Must be. I got a reply, which I will share when I have time to investigate it. As justification, he pointed to http://leangen.uninett.no:29659/, which shows 52334 users and 22401 machines registered. He has already moderated his claim to 5,000,000 users. Let's see, according to jkh, there are 13505 registered FreeBSD system. Assuing a linear interpolation, this means that there must be 3,000,000 FreeBSD users. Not bad, eh? jkh, how can we access the registration counters? There should be something on the web about it (along with a pointer to the Linux registration counters). Greg