From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain alphyra.ie)
Date: Tue 10 Sep 2002 - 13:30:22 IST
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, kevin lyda wrote:
> that seems like a very skewed source. it would depend on people's
> search habits, whether they modify their browser strings, whether
> they have net access, what search engine people favour and so on.
>
> kevin
i'm actually surprised it even registers as a full %. Eg, even here on
a linux users list:
[paulj at domain florence mail-in]$ awk '$1 ~ /Mailer/ { lines++; if ($2 ==
"Microsoft" || ($2 " " $3) == "Internet Mail" ) ms++; } END { print
"\n\n"; print "total: " lines " of which Microsoft: " ms; print "off
the cuff percentage of MS using ilugers: " (ms/lines*100); }' ilug
total: 756 of which Microsoft: 432
off the cuff percentage of MS using ilugers: 57.1429
so even on ILUG, out of those who post, linux desktop users are a
minority. (and the above is erring on the side of linux users, cause
it counts things like webmail and eudora as linux users.)
regards,
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