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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:14:15 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        "Christopher S. Weimann" <cweimann@wallnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some un-biased numbers on OS distributions...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902151313340.39507-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990215120026.A12258@wallnet.com>

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Dead since October, 1998, according to their web page...

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Christopher S. Weimann wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:09:49AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > 
> > Over the past couple of days, I've been trying to come up with some
> > reasonably unbiased numbers concerning distribution of operating systems
> > on the Internet...the numbers are depressing so far:
> > 
> > Operating System Summary
> > OS       # of Hosts % of Hosts
> > Windows       37929      74.94
> > Linux          4750       9.39
> > Macintosh      2044       4.04
> > SunOS          1691       3.34
> > FreeBSD         336       0.66
> > 
> > Granted, the sample size is still only ~50,000 hosts, but the %ages stay 
> > pretty consistant as most hosts come on line...are we *really* that far 
> > behind?
> > 
> 
> http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/
> 
> The Internet Operating System Counter (750 000+ web servers queried)
> 
> 1.   (1.)  Linux                171623 26.3% -0.6%
> 2.   (2.)  Windows 95/98/NT     152682 23.4% -0.3%
> 3.   (3.)  BSD Family           147602 22.6% -0.2%
> 4.   (4.)  Solaris/SunOS         94230 14.4% -0.1%
> 5.   (5.)  IRIX                  29384  4.5% +1.2%
> 6.   (6.)  Mac/Apple             13736  2.1% -0.4%
> 7.   (7.)  AIX                   10865  1.7% -0.3%
> 8.   (9.)  HPUX                  10237  1.6% +0.6%
> 9.   (11.) Reliant Unix/Sinix     3971  0.6% +0.1%
> 10.  (8.)  Digital Unix           3775  0.6% -1.2%
> 11.  (10.) SCO Unix               2507  0.4% -0.1%
> 12.  (12.) Novell Netware         2285  0.4% +0.2%
>                                --------------------
>                          totals 642899 98.6%
> 
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Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org 


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