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From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: *BSD counter: 986 registered users of free BSD versions
Date: 1 Feb 1995 03:04:51 +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!
------------------------------------------------------------
Status of the Free BSD counter, as of Tue Jan 31 19:00:23 MET 1995
There are 986 registered users of free BSD versions
PLACES WHERE FREE BSD IS USED
==========================
Self Other Sum %Sum Place
607 31 638 64% home
271 10 281 28% work
128 1 129 12% somewhere
60 0 60 6% school
7 0 7 0% not used
--------------------------
954 39 993 100% 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 18 0 18 5.0 3.6
4 au Australia 57 0 57 17.1 3.3
5 se Sweden 26 0 26 8.6 3.0
6 nz New Zealand 7 0 7 3.4 2.1
7 nl Netherlands 28 0 28 14.9 1.9
8 us USA 428 9 437 249.6 1.7
9 ie Ireland 5 0 5 3.5 1.4
10 de Germany 106 2 108 79.1 1.3
11 ee Estonia 2 0 2 1.6 1.2
12 ca Canada 33 0 33 26.6 1.2
13 dk Denmark 6 0 6 5.1 1.2
14 il Israel 5 0 5 6.3 0.8
15 sg Singapore 2 0 2 2.7 0.7
16 gb Great Britain 41 0 41 57.2 0.7
17 hk Hong Kong 4 0 4 5.9 0.7
18 za South Africa 18 0 18 30.2 0.6
19 at Austria 4 0 4 7.6 0.5
20 cz Czech Rebublic 5 0 5 10.0 0.5
21 fr France 27 4 31 56.2 0.5
22 tw Taiwan 7 0 7 20.3 0.3
23 jp Japan 32 11 43 123.3 0.3
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) 20 5 25 147.4 0.1
28 ua Ukraine 4 0 4 51.9 0.1
29 br Brazil 11 5 16 158.2 0.1
30 my Malaysia 1 0 1 18.0 0.1
31 pl Poland 2 0 2 38.4 0.1
32 it Italy 3 0 3 57.7 0.1
33 es Spain 2 0 2 39.5 0.1
34 kr Korea (South) 1 0 1 43.1 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 8 1 9 5000.0 0.0
39 xw The World (Somewhere in i 6 0 6 5000.0 0.0