From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 07:52:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21192 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:52:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21186 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:52:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02246; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:52:40 GMT Message-ID: <36C842C7.CCFD1223@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:52:39 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Weber CC: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some un-biased numbers on OS distributions... References: <19990215091546.A25430@austin.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message