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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

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