From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 7: 4:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7506937B43D for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:04:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g25F4F574411 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:04:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g25F4GR08200 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:04:16 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:04:15 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mac, the Nix's and other notes... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Was doing some reading on slashdot and some other sites and ran into some rather interesting information. One of them being that in Japan, the most popular PC/OS is Mac. In Europe it's Linux and in places like africa, believe it or not, dos and win 3.1 of all things. :) Probubly because they're still using a lot of our old discarded 486 machines. FreeBSD was on one of the lists of OS's currently in use and their relationship to the PC market as a whole. While no one OS or system took president, the Nix's in general (this counts linux as well) was a far first, with the Microsoft Windows operating system line taking a misserable 5th place with less than 8%. Breakups by country were also interesting. In the US, MS OS's are on over 70% of all machines while in europe it's less than 15% with the Nix's taking 63% of all systems. In Japan aproximately 91% of all machines are Mac, while in China and Asia in general, the Nix's rule the roost at 97% concentration. Note, these are arbitrary numbers, and not gospel fact. But I found them interesting and thought I'd throw them out there. Kinda cool. :) Now if someone could come up with a PPC port for FBSD, I'd be in 7th, 8th, and 9th heavens. :) Also, in a breakdown of computer systems in use, based on hardware, it seems that the X86 line is going very strong with Mac holding a respectible 3rd, Alpha actually showed up 4th while proprietary hardware as a group showed up second, and others below that. Amiga even made the list. :) I compiled this information in my head from a multitude of sites, so I don't have exact links. But it's interesting none the less. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message