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From: hta@uninett.no (Harald T. Alvestrand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Announcing the Freeware BSD Counter
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Date: 1 Feb 1994 08:13:46 GMT
Organization: Uninett
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2il2vq$95a@trane.uninett.no>
NNTP-Posting-Host: domen.uninett.no
Keywords: Counting users
[This was originally posted to comp.os.386bsd.announce, but one of the
respondents claimed that a large number of people read comp.os.386bsd.questions
and *not* comp.os.386bsd.announce. I therefore post this here.
Further posts on this subject will *only* be in comp.os.386bsd.misc - HTA]
Announcing the Freeware BSD Counter
===================================
In brief:
Send E-mail to bsd-counter@uninett.no with the SUBJECT line
"I use <BSDversion> at <place>"
Introduction
============
In October of last year, I set up a device for counting the number
of Linux users, in the form of a mail responder.
So far, it's counted 4844 Linux users, and I estimate this to be
somewhere between 0.1 % and 10 % of the total number of users.
One of the more nagging questions has been how this compares to the
users of NetBSD in all its variants.
So, one day I was feeling like it, I set up a mail responder called
"bsd-counter" that was able to do exactly the same thing.
After announcing this on comp.os.386bsd.misc and .announce, it's so
far counted 466 BSD users.
The intention is, however, to count all users of UNIXes that are:
- BSD-derived
- Freely available
The variants NetBSD, 386BSD and FreeBSD are currently distinguished.
(NOTE: Linux is NOT BSD-derived. If you use that, send mail to
linux-counter@uninett.no instead!!!)
How to register
===============
Send E-mail to bsd-counter@uninett.no
The subject should be
I use <version> at <place>
where "version" can be NetBSD, 386BSD and FreeBSD; "place" can be
school, work or home.
You will get back a letter with 3 things:
- An acknowledgement
- A form that you can fill out and send in with more information
about yourself, your machine, and your 386bsd-using friends
- A report giving the current status of the counter
You can update your "vote" at any time, by sending an E-mail message
from the same account. Duplicates will be weeded out.
The head of the current report, available by anonymous FTP to aun.uninett.no,
directory pub/misc/386bsd-counter, file "short", is given below.
Status of the Free BSD counter, as of Tue Feb 1 06:00:20 MET 1994
There are 466 registered users of free BSD versions
PLACES WHERE FREE BSD IS USED
==========================
Self Other Sum %Sum Place
295 27 322 68% home
127 5 132 27% work
47 0 47 9% somewhere
29 0 29 6% school
6 0 6 1% not used
--------------------------
441 31 472 100% 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 is Iceland 1 0 1 0.3 3.9
2 no Norway 11 0 11 4.3 2.6
3 fi Finland 9 0 9 5.0 1.8
4 se Sweden 15 0 15 8.6 1.7
5 au Australia 22 0 22 17.1 1.3
6 nz New Zealand 4 0 4 3.4 1.2
7 ie Ireland 3 0 3 3.5 0.9
8 us USA 205 9 214 249.6 0.8
9 nl Netherlands 10 0 10 14.9 0.7
10 de Germany 52 2 54 79.1 0.7
11 ca Canada 17 0 17 26.6 0.6
12 ee Estonia 1 0 1 1.6 0.6
13 dk Denmark 3 0 3 5.1 0.6
14 cz Czech Rebublic 5 0 5 10.0 0.5
15 at Austria 3 0 3 7.6 0.4
16 sg Singapore 1 0 1 2.7 0.4
17 gb Great Britain 19 0 19 57.2 0.3
18 za South Africa 8 0 8 30.2 0.3
19 fr France 12 2 14 56.2 0.2
20 il Israel 1 0 1 6.3 0.2
21 jp Japan 13 11 24 123.3 0.1
22 gr Greece 1 0 1 10.1 0.1
23 tw Taiwan 2 0 2 20.3 0.1
24 hu Hungary 1 2 3 10.5 0.1
25 my Malaysia 1 0 1 18.0 0.1
26 es Spain 2 0 2 39.5 0.1
27 it Italy 2 0 2 57.7 0.0
28 su Soviet Union (former) 4 5 9 147.4 0.0
29 br Brazil 1 0 1 158.2 0.0
30 xe Europe (Somewhere in it) 1 0 1 320.0 0.0
31 in India 2 0 2 844.0 0.0
32 xx Unknown 2 0 2 5000.0 0.0
33 xw The World (Somewhere in i 1 0 1 5000.0 0.0
Happy voting!
--
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.