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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.