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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tue Feb 23, 1999 05:48 AM
from the time-to-plug-it-again dept.
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We mention this occasionally, and its listed anywhere this sort of thing would be mentioned, but I figure now is as good a time as any to rerun a link to the Linux Counter. As you might have guessed, this site aims to count the total number of Linux installations on the planet. Go fill out the forms. It'll take a minute, but those numbers are essential to convincing the PHBs. Thanks to Mattias Sörlin for sending in the URL. (and yes I know, there are a dozen similiar efforts)
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  • /.ed already? :) (Score:1)

    by Frandsen (816) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @06:03AM (#2007410)
    Heh.. can't connect.. I believe I'm registred there already though.

  • Distribution Distribution.. (Score:1)

    by ninjaz (1202) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @11:51PM (#2007411)
    Interesting stats here:

    Slackware - 20790,
    Debian has 10987,
    Redhat, 10041

    Off I go to register a few of my boxes and raise the debian counts. :)

    1088 2.73% distribution:DIY
    9899 24.87% distribution:Debian
    414 1.04% distribution:Debian ==DEBIAN-VERSION==
    483 1.21% distribution:Other
    10041 25.23% distribution:Red Hat
    1979 4.97% distribution:S.u.S.E
    13790 34.65% distribution:Slackware
    2263 5.69% distribution:Others

  • Check it out - the graphs show (Score:1)

    by marcus (1916) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @07:36PM (#2007412) Journal
    the /. effect for today.

  • /.-ed to hell and gone... (Score:1)

    by JerkBoB (7130) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @07:10AM (#2007413)
    What exactly does "to hell and gone" mean, anyhow?

  • it's been slashdotted (Score:1)

    by Tool-Man (11199) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @06:17AM (#2007414) Homepage
    it seems the site just got overwhelmed

  • Yes, I'm number 70 (Score:1)

    by TA (14109) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @06:51AM (#2007415)
    I registered many years ago.. I'm number 70 :-)
    (the counter can send you a nice Penguin gif with
    "Registered User # xx")

  • Counting Linux users. (Score:1)

    by BiGGO (15018) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @06:13AM (#2007416) Homepage
    Thats give me an idea for another way to count Linux users...

    1. Survey Linux users if they have registered.
    2. Check the counter...
    3. Multiply: Surveyed_users / Surveyed_registered_users * Registered_users

    btw,
    this is not really new,
    I have registered a month ago. (101810)
    given that I was 101810 I assume this service esited a long time before last month.

    ---

  • Distribution Distribution.. (Score:1)

    by g1dlc (15306) on Friday February 26 1999, @08:53AM (#2007417) Homepage
    Take these with a grain of salt or two. Speaking for myself (2419), I found they had me owning two machines (353 and 899) that were really the same machine at different points in time (SLS 1.02, Slackware 1.1.1), and the box has subsequently been recycled within the company into a Windoze platform. But I registered my current home and work boxes, both running Debian, while attempting to retire the others.

  • all but impossible (Score:1)

    by stealthbob (15597) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @05:53AM (#2007418)
    subject

  • Another way to estimate LinuxUsers (Score:1)

    by MS (18681) on Tuesday February 23 1999, @08:38AM (#2007419)
    Another counter, not for Linux, but for operating systems in general can be found here: http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount [leb.net].

    According to this survey, 31% of all WWW/FTP/News Servers worldwide seem to run Linux - wow! 1191755 hosts were queried (for a comparison: Netcraft queried 4301512 sites, so the numbers are quite representative).

    Doing a little math, considering there are about n servers on the net, we get n*0.31 servers running Linux worldwide.

    :-)
    Markus Senoner

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