Great idea, Doug, but I believe there's a problem with your methodology: netcraft.com can only measure machines that have a direct Internet connection, which, in the case of most of Africa, are servers and routers. Most workstations at companies, Internet cafes, government agencies, and universities will have non-routable IP numbers and would never show up in your survey.
When I look at my Web logs, I still see that the most used operating system -- more than 80% of my traffic coming from Africa -- is some variant of Windows, and that's not accounting for Windows workstations using proxy servers running Linux. Again, we are left where Keats AND Heeks originally left us: FOSS is widely used for backstage applications by those familiar with the technology (and embedded into routers and such), but Windows is the interface of choice for desktop productivity. Best regards! -- Cliff - - - - - Cliff Missen, MA Director, WiderNet Project University of Iowa tel: 319-335-2200 http://www.widernet.org On Thursday, October 20, 2005, Douglas J. Trainor wrote: ..snip... > However, for my own purposes, I thought of a simple question > just now: > What operating systems run on Tanzanian machines on the > Internet, and are they FOSS or non-FOSS? > > I did a quick and crude "ad hoc" survey by limiting my > inquiry in the following way: > > (1) Take only domains with the TLD suffix .tz > Admittedly, this does not represent all machines in Tanzania, > but it is my sample. > > (2) Use a list of operating systems identified reliably by > netcraft.com [Reference 2 and 3]. > > I answered my own question with a few minutes of effort. ..snip... ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
