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From: hta@uninett.no (Harald T. Alvestrand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Initial BSD usercount: 375 users counted
Date: 20 Jan 1994 14:23:13 GMT
Organization: Uninett
Lines: 97
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2hm44h$cfv@trane.uninett.no>
NNTP-Posting-Host: domen.uninett.no
Hello,
my attempt to count *BSD users has met with at least some limited
success.
NOTE: This is an ongoing experiment.
To get included:
Send a message to bsd-counter@uninett.no with the SUBJECT being
I use <BSDversion> at <type of place>
where <BSDversion> is one of FreeBSD, NetBSD or 386BSD; <type of place>
is one of home, school, and work.
More complex registrations are possible, and will be explained in the
reply from the counter.
To get all the reports from the experiment: FTP to aun.uninett.no,
and look in pub/misc/386bsd-counter.
(Aside: The Linux counter, which has been running since October, has
counted 4629 users. I don't think this can possibly be more than 5%
of the Linux users, and probably less than 1%. There is no reason that
I know of why the return rate on BSD should be significantly different)
On the 93 registered machines, the distribution of BSD versions was:
4 4.3%: 386bsd
40 43.0%: freebsd
49 52.7%: netbsd
Have a good time!
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
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Status of the Free BSD counter, as of Thu Jan 20 10:00:10 MET 1994
There are 375 registered users of free BSD versions
PLACES WHERE FREE BSD IS USED
==========================
Self Other Sum %Sum Place
245 23 268 70% home
104 4 108 28% work
36 0 36 9% somewhere
20 0 20 5% school
6 0 6 1% not used
--------------------------
354 27 381 100% TOTAL
NOTE: Some people use free BSD in multiple places, so the total is not
the sum of the columns.
COUNTRIES WHERE FREE BSD IS USED
=============================
Country Self Other Sum MPop Free BSD/M
---------------------------------------------------------------
1 no Norway 11 0 11 4.3 2.6
2 fi Finland 8 0 8 5.0 1.6
3 se Sweden 11 0 11 8.6 1.3
4 au Australia 20 0 20 17.1 1.2
5 nz New Zealand 3 0 3 3.4 0.9
6 us USA 168 5 173 249.6 0.7
7 ee Estonia 1 0 1 1.6 0.6
8 nl Netherlands 9 0 9 14.9 0.6
9 ie Ireland 2 0 2 3.5 0.6
10 ca Canada 14 0 14 26.6 0.5
11 de Germany 40 2 42 79.1 0.5
12 cz Czech Rebublic 5 0 5 10.0 0.5
13 at Austria 3 0 3 7.6 0.4
14 dk Denmark 2 0 2 5.1 0.4
15 gb Great Britain 12 0 12 57.2 0.2
16 za South Africa 6 0 6 30.2 0.2
17 fr France 10 2 12 56.2 0.2
18 il Israel 1 0 1 6.3 0.2
19 gr Greece 1 0 1 10.1 0.1
20 hu Hungary 1 2 3 10.5 0.1
21 jp Japan 11 11 22 123.3 0.1
22 es Spain 2 0 2 39.5 0.1
23 su Soviet Union (former) 3 5 8 147.4 0.0
24 br Brazil 1 0 1 158.2 0.0
25 xe Europe (Somewhere in it) 1 0 1 320.0 0.0
26 xw The World (Somewhere in i 1 0 1 5000.0 0.0
27 xx Unknown 1 0 1 5000.0 0.0
--
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
G=Harald;I=T;S=Alvestrand;O=uninett;P=uninett;C=no
+47 73 59 70 94
My son's name is Torbjørn. The letter between "j" and "r" is o with a slash.