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From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: *BSD counter: 915 registered users of free BSD versions
Date: 1 Jan 1995 03:00:03 +0100
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How to get registered
=====================
In brief:
Send E-mail to bsd-counter@uninett.no with the SUBJECT line
"I use <BSDversion> at <place>"
Introduction
============
The intention of this counting project is 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!!!)
The information is *not* used for any purpose but statistics, and unless
you request it, information about single persons are *never* made public.
(A list of users who have requested publication is available from the
FTP file ftp://aun.uninett.no/pub/misc/386bsd/persons)
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 current report, available by anonymous FTP to aun.uninett.no,
directory pub/misc/386bsd-counter, file "short", is given below.
For all questions, contact Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no!
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Status of the Free BSD counter, as of Wed Dec 28 00:00:32 MET 1994
There are 915 registered users of free BSD versions
PLACES WHERE FREE BSD IS USED
==========================
Self Other Sum %Sum Place
564 29 593 64% home
247 10 257 27% work
123 1 124 13% somewhere
58 0 58 6% school
7 0 7 0% not used
--------------------------
885 37 922 100% 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 2 0 2 0.3 7.9
2 no Norway 16 0 16 4.3 3.7
3 fi Finland 17 0 17 5.0 3.4
4 au Australia 52 0 52 17.1 3.0
5 se Sweden 25 0 25 8.6 2.9
6 nl Netherlands 28 0 28 14.9 1.9
7 nz New Zealand 6 0 6 3.4 1.8
8 us USA 395 9 404 249.6 1.6
9 de Germany 103 2 105 79.1 1.3
10 ee Estonia 2 0 2 1.6 1.2
11 ca Canada 33 0 33 26.6 1.2
12 dk Denmark 6 0 6 5.1 1.2
13 ie Ireland 4 0 4 3.5 1.1
14 il Israel 5 0 5 6.3 0.8
15 gb Great Britain 40 0 40 57.2 0.7
16 hk Hong Kong 4 0 4 5.9 0.7
17 za South Africa 16 0 16 30.2 0.5
18 at Austria 4 0 4 7.6 0.5
19 cz Czech Rebublic 5 0 5 10.0 0.5
20 fr France 24 2 26 56.2 0.4
21 sg Singapore 1 0 1 2.7 0.4
22 tw Taiwan 6 0 6 20.3 0.3
23 jp Japan 30 11 41 123.3 0.2
24 gr Greece 2 0 2 10.1 0.2
25 hu Hungary 2 2 4 10.5 0.2
26 ch Switzerland 1 0 1 6.7 0.1
27 su Soviet Union (former) 15 5 20 147.4 0.1
28 br Brazil 10 5 15 158.2 0.1
29 my Malaysia 1 0 1 18.0 0.1
30 pl Poland 2 0 2 38.4 0.1
31 it Italy 3 0 3 57.7 0.1
32 es Spain 2 0 2 39.5 0.1
33 kr Korea (South) 1 0 1 43.1 0.0
34 ua Ukraine 1 0 1 51.9 0.0
35 th Thailand 1 0 1 57.6 0.0
36 in India 3 0 3 844.0 0.0
37 xe Europe (Somewhere in it) 1 0 1 320.0 0.0
38 xx Unknown 6 1 7 5000.0 0.0
39 xw The World (Somewhere in i 3 0 3 5000.0 0.0