From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 07:13:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16251 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:13:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aauu.aaweber.com (cs43-106.austin.rr.com [24.93.43.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16246 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aaweber@austin.rr.com) Received: (from aaweber@localhost) by aauu.aaweber.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA25493; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:15:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:15:46 -0600 From: Alan Weber To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some un-biased numbers on OS distributions... Message-ID: <19990215091546.A25430@austin.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:09:49AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:09:49AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: --> --> Over the past couple of days, I've been trying to come up with some --> reasonably unbiased numbers concerning distribution of operating systems --> on the Internet...the numbers are depressing so far: --> --> Operating System Summary --> OS # of Hosts % of Hosts --> Windows 37929 74.94 --> Linux 4750 9.39 --> Macintosh 2044 4.04 --> SunOS 1691 3.34 --> FreeBSD 336 0.66 --> --> Granted, the sample size is still only ~50,000 hosts, but the %ages stay --> pretty consistant as most hosts come on line...are we *really* that far --> behind? --> --> Full results can be seen at http://www.hub.org/OS_Survey, and just by --> hitting that page, you add to the results... I think one of the weaknesses of using vistors to collect IPs is you will get a sampling of the desktop population. The server population will be totally invisible. All the web servers at yahoo will not visit your site. I am also am curious what operating systems MSIE, NAV are. I thing that the heavy duty server oses are underrepresented. I would expect more HPUX, AIX, SUN, and FreeBSD in a server population. Could you test HTTPD/FTP/Telnet ports to try and identify servers vs desktops. I am glad that FreeBSD is even visible in the desktop domain. -- When I was a kid I had to rub sticks together to multiply and divide numbers. A calculator was a job description. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message