Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:52:39 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Alan Weber <aaweber@austin.rr.com> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some un-biased numbers on OS distributions... Message-ID: <36C842C7.CCFD1223@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902150303580.10449-100000@thelab.hub.org> <19990215091546.A25430@austin.rr.com>
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Alan Weber wrote: > 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. This should really be in -chat or similar, but I'd agree with the above... Take the company I work for, our machine population boils down to 2 NT Workstations, 1 NT Server, 12 FreeBSD servers. I guess I could go get the FreeBSD boxes to fetch the survey page? <g> -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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