Jeff,
Linux counter sends an email out to the address you listed every year
and asks that you login to update your information. If you don't,
you get "uncounted".
Mark
On Sep 4, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Jeff Shippen wrote:
There's really no 100% accurate way to tell how many users of what
there are. Here's an intersting site set up to count how many people
use linux and how many machines they use it on.
http://counter.li.org/
Unfortunately, you must go add yourself manually, and then, I do not
know if there is a way to remove your self should you make any
changes for any reason.
This is an interesting topic anyway... can anyone think of a way to
effeciently count operating systems? Maybe we can set up a survey
website, to at least get a general idea. A survey that can take
place
each year for the full year... Here's a visual of the idea, with my
count inside. http://jeffshippen.homelinux.com/test/OSsurvey/ (open
office or html)
I'm starting to think it should be a more simple survey, to include
only option for a variant, such as
<windows>
<mac>
<unix>
Maybe there can be a unified way the Linux distros can implement a
count across the net, to count both distro and total linuxes - again
these numbers are prone to be higher than real uses - because, i for
example, like to download this linux and that linux just for a
temporary trial, and then i go back to my favorite.
I think we, as a LUG group, can put some ideas together and possibly
come up with an effecient count method, weather it's for only Linux
or includes all OSes.
Jeff
Quoting Bill Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
This may seem like a silly or irrelevant question, but how do we
KNOW
how many people are using Linux?
I'm sure it's relatively easy to know how many people are using
Windows,
or Apple, by tracking sales figures. But what figures do the
pundits use
to track Linux users, when they compare this system to others?
This question came to mind when I learned that Fermilabs, CERN in
Switzerland, and a number of other huge research facilities, are
using
Linux, but the hundreds and hundreds of desktops and servers at
each
facility are probably not being counted, because they run a
non-proprietary version of Linux they have built from source
themselves.
Like I said, it's a silly question, but the alleged answer that
some
"experts" offer either comes out of thin air, or there is a way.
Could
it be that there are significantly more Linux users that anyone
imagines?
Bill
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