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From: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: *BSD counter: 1047 registered users of free BSD versions
Date: 1 Mar 1995 03:00:04 +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 Wed Mar 1 00:00:58 MET 1995
There are 1047 registered users of free BSD versions
PLACES WHERE FREE BSD IS USED
==========================
Self Other Sum %Sum Place
650 31 681 64% home
286 10 296 28% work
137 1 138 13% somewhere
63 0 63 5% school
7 0 7 0% not used
--------------------------
1015 39 1054 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 18 0 18 4.3 4.2
3 fi Finland 18 0 18 5.0 3.6
4 au Australia 61 0 61 17.1 3.6
5 se Sweden 29 0 29 8.6 3.4
6 nz New Zealand 7 0 7 3.4 2.1
7 nl Netherlands 29 0 29 14.9 1.9
8 us USA 454 9 463 249.6 1.8
9 ie Ireland 5 0 5 3.5 1.4
10 de Germany 111 2 113 79.1 1.4
11 ca Canada 34 0 34 26.6 1.3
12 ee Estonia 2 0 2 1.6 1.2
13 dk Denmark 6 0 6 5.1 1.2
14 hk Hong Kong 5 0 5 5.9 0.8
15 il Israel 5 0 5 6.3 0.8
16 gb Great Britain 43 0 43 57.2 0.8
17 sg Singapore 2 0 2 2.7 0.7
18 at Austria 5 0 5 7.6 0.7
19 za South Africa 18 0 18 30.2 0.6
20 cz Czech Rebublic 5 0 5 10.0 0.5
21 fr France 28 4 32 56.2 0.5
22 tw Taiwan 7 0 7 20.3 0.3
23 ch Switzerland 2 0 2 6.7 0.3
24 jp Japan 33 11 44 123.3 0.3
25 gr Greece 2 0 2 10.1 0.2
26 pt Portugal 2 0 2 10.3 0.2
27 hu Hungary 2 2 4 10.5 0.2
28 su Soviet Union (former) 22 5 27 147.4 0.1
29 ua Ukraine 5 0 5 51.9 0.1
30 it Italy 5 0 5 57.7 0.1
31 pl Poland 3 0 3 38.4 0.1
32 kr Korea (South) 3 0 3 43.1 0.1
33 br Brazil 11 5 16 158.2 0.1
34 my Malaysia 1 0 1 18.0 0.1
35 es Spain 2 0 2 39.5 0.1
36 th Thailand 1 0 1 57.6 0.0
37 mx Mexico 1 0 1 81.4 0.0
38 in India 3 0 3 844.0 0.0
39 xe Europe (Somewhere in it) 1 0 1 320.0 0.0
40 xx Unknown 8 1 9 5000.0 0.0
41 xw The World (Somewhere in i 7 0 7 5000.0 0.0