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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web page
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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