Subject: Linux Counter Update (4151 users registered)
From: [email-masked] (Harald T. Alvestrand)
Date: 9 Dec 1993 23:24:47 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

This is to announce that the Linux Counter is still in business, now with
greatly enhanced information-gathering capability.
You can still register by sending mail with "I use Linux at home" in the
subject line, you can query it by saying "HELP" in the body of the message
(in which case you will NOT be registered), or you can input much more
exact data by using a form.

You can also register other people!

PRIVACY POLICY: NO personal data will be given out by the counter for
"friend" registration. People who write "Yes" in the "May-publish" field
of the PERSON registration agree that their name and E-mail address may
be made public.
Persons may query what they themselves have registered, or request that
such information is deleted from the counter, by E-mail to the maintainer (me).

The rest of the message describes how to use the Form registration.
The current PEOPLE statistics follow below the help message.
Happy counting!

                  Harald Tveit Alvestrand
                       Linux counter

HELP FOR THE LINUX USAGE COUNTER
================================
This message is intended for you to edit, and send right back to the
[email-masked] address.
DO NOT USE "REPLY"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can register MACHINES, FRIENDS and data about YOURSELF (PERSON).
Below is listed an example of each of the sections, with comments that
aid you in filling them out correctly.

Only use the FRIENDS section if it is unlikely that the people will
register themselves!

When the templates are accepted by the daemon, they will be added to the
database. Data will be added even if it is not parsed properly.
They may be thrown out in later duplicate elimination, or you may receive
a query from me regarding the validity of the data, but otherwise, they will
be counted.
Good luck!

             Harald Tveit Alvestrand

//FRIEND
# Your Linux-using friends, in the pattern
# E-mail address: place of usage
# For people without E-mail address, use
# ?[email-masked]
# like ?[email-masked] or ?[email-masked]

//MACHINE
# Fill in one such section per machine that runs Linux
accounts:
# Number of accounts in /etc/passwd, not counting root and so on
country:
# ISO 3166 two-letter country code
cpu:
# The pattern is MakerNumberBus/Speed, for example
# Cx386, amd486, 386DX/33, 586SX/16
disk:
# Number of MBytes of disk installed - number only
distribution:
# Slackware, SLS, LGX, TAMU, MCC,
OTHER or DIY (do-it-yourself) with optional version number
memory:
# Number of MBytes of memory installed - number only
name:
# DNS or UUCP name of machine if it has one
# If no unique network name is available, use ?[email-masked]
network:
# Type of network - SLIP, Ethernet, Term or none
users:
# Number of persons who use this machine regularly

//PERSON
# This is about yourself, the sender of this message
country:
# ISO 3166 two-letter country code of where you live
may-publish:
# YES if you agree that information about you can be published
# If not given, nothing but statistical information will be published
name:
# Your name
started:
# Month and year you started using Linux, like "nov 93"
usage:
# The place where you use Linux. Home, school, work or combinations of these

//END
The END command is only required if you have a mailer that adds stuff
below the last line of the message.

=========================================================================
Status of the Linux counter, as of Mon Dec  6 14:00:46 MET 1993

There are 4151 registered Linux users

PLACES WHERE LINUX IS USED
==========================
 Self Other   Sum %Sum  Place
 2302    22  2324  55% home
    8     0     8   0% home, school
  831     2   833  19% home, work
    1     0     1   0% home, work, school
   52     0    52   1% not used
    1     1     2   0% school
  214   506   720  17% somewhere
  251    12   263   6% work
--------------------------
 3660   543  4203 100% TOTAL

COUNTRIES WHERE LINUX IS USED
=============================
      Country                    Self Other   Sum  MPop Linux/M
---------------------------------------------------------------
 1 fi Finland                     127     0   127     5.0  25.4
 2 is Iceland                       5     0     5     0.3  19.7
 3 no Norway                       70     0    70     4.3  16.3
 4 se Sweden                      105     0   105     8.6  12.2
 5 nl Netherlands                 164     0   164    14.9  11.0
 6 dk Denmark                      49     0    49     5.1   9.6
 7 au Australia                   145     0   145    17.1   8.5
 8 de Germany                     640     1   641    79.1   8.1
 9 at Austria                      61     0    61     7.6   8.0
10 ca Canada                      175     0   175    26.6   6.6
11 us USA                        1477    12  1489   249.6   5.9
12 ch Switzerland                  36     0    36     6.7   5.4
13 lu Luxembourg                    2     0     2     0.4   5.1
14 gb Great Britain               204     0   204    57.2   3.6
15 be Belgium                      31   506   537     9.9   3.1
16 nz New Zealand                  10     2    12     3.4   2.9
17 ie Ireland                       9     0     9     3.5   2.6
18 si Slovenia                      4     0     4     2.0   2.0
19 ee Estonia                       3     4     7     1.6   1.9
20 fr France                       79    14    93    56.2   1.4
21 hk Hong Kong                     8     0     8     5.9   1.4
22 il Israel                        8     0     8     6.3   1.3
23 za South Africa                 24     0    24    30.2   0.8
24 sg Singapore                     2     0     2     2.7   0.7
25 gr Greece                        7     0     7    10.1   0.7
26 pt Portugal                      7     2     9    10.3   0.7
27 hu Hungaria                      6     0     6    10.5   0.6
28 tw Taiwan                       11     0    11    20.3   0.5
29 cl Chile                         7     0     7    13.5   0.5
30 it Italy                        25     0    25    57.7   0.4
31 jp Japan                        41     0    41   123.3   0.3
32 es Spain                        13     0    13    39.5   0.3
33 cr Costa Rica                    1     0     1     3.1   0.3
34 cz Czech Rebublic                3     0     3    10.0   0.3
35 pl Poland                        9     0     9    38.4   0.2
36 hr Croatia                       1     0     1     4.8   0.2
37 by Belarus                       1     0     1    10.4   0.1
38 co Colombia                      3     0     3    34.3   0.1
39 ro Romania                       2     0     2    23.2   0.1
40 cs Czechoslovakia (former)       1     0     1    15.7   0.1
41 my Malaysia                      1     0     1    18.0   0.1
42 kr Korea (South)                 2     0     2    43.1   0.0
43 br Brazil                        7     0     7   158.2   0.0
44 xe Europe (Somewhere in it)      9     0     9   320.0   0.0
45 su Soviet Union (former)         4     0     4   147.4   0.0
46 mx Mexico                        2     0     2    81.4   0.0
47 ua Ukraine                       1     0     1    51.9   0.0
48 th Thailand                      1     0     1    57.6   0.0
49 in India                         5     0     5   844.0   0.0
50 xw The World (Somewhere in i     0     2     2  5000.0   0.0

-- 
                   Harald Tveit Alvestrand
                [email-masked]
      G=Harald;I=T;S=Alvestrand;O=uninett;P=uninett;C=no
                      +47 73 59 70 94
My son's name is Torbjxrn. The letter between "j" and "r" is o with a slash.

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