Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:15:46 -0600 From: Alan Weber <aaweber@austin.rr.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some un-biased numbers on OS distributions... Message-ID: <19990215091546.A25430@austin.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902150303580.10449-100000@thelab.hub.org>; from The Hermit Hacker on Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 03:09:49AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902150303580.10449-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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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? --> --> Full results can be seen at http://www.hub.org/OS_Survey, and just by --> hitting that page, you add to the results... I think one of the weaknesses of using vistors to collect IPs is you will get a sampling of the desktop population. The server population will be totally invisible. All the web servers at yahoo will not visit your site. I am also am curious what operating systems MSIE, NAV are. I thing that the heavy duty server oses are underrepresented. I would expect more HPUX, AIX, SUN, and FreeBSD in a server population. Could you test HTTPD/FTP/Telnet ports to try and identify servers vs desktops. I am glad that FreeBSD is even visible in the desktop domain. -- When I was a kid I had to rub sticks together to multiply and divide numbers. A calculator was a job description. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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