Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 14:12:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, 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 Message-ID: <19971015141220.23141@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <13401.876888870@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 09:14:30PM -0700 References: <19971015124358.26418@lemis.com> <13401.876888870@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 09:14:30PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> 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? > > Yeah, current count is now 13887 users. You should tell that we've > got almost 15000 registered systems but don't see how one can come > even close to 3 million uses as a result. I still want to see his > metrics. :-) Check out the URLs. There's something in there, but I couldn't be bothered reading it. >> 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). > > That would be nice, yes. :-) No time to hack out those sorts of things > right now, however, so the best you guys are going to get are periodic > reports. The registrations come to me (and Poul-Henning, who also > signed himself up to receive them) via email and I don't have any > fancy CGI stuff for exporting it. Hmmm. Looks like we need a volunteer. Greg
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