Re: estamated number of Linux users?

From	x9p <debian@x9p.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: estamated number of Linux users?
Date	2017-10-27 19:00 +0200
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On 2017-10-27 14:27, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 10/26/2017 11:21 PM, John Hasler wrote:
>> Celejar writes:
>>> https://www.linuxcounter.net/
>>> I don't know how meaningful its data are.
>> 
>> Utterly useless.
> 
> I wouldn't demean the Linux Counter effort calling it "Utterly
> useless". Those folks have maintained the site since 1999 or so. It is
> what it is... a database of users who have bothered to have themselves
> counted as a Linux User. They don't claim to be anything else. Ric

Just for the fun of it, if really interested on that, maybe build a 
script to parse the archives of the public mailing lists for the main 
Linux distros, getting the last active unique emails for the past 6 
months... and count them.

just an idea tough...

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estamated number of Linux users? Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2017-10-27 03:50 +0200
  Re: estamated number of Linux users? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-10-27 04:20 +0200
    Re: estamated number of Linux users? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-10-27 05:30 +0200
      Re: estamated number of Linux users? Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> - 2017-10-27 13:00 +0200
      Re: estamated number of Linux users? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-10-27 18:30 +0200
        Re: estamated number of Linux users? x9p <debian@x9p.org> - 2017-10-27 19:00 +0200
        Re: estamated number of Linux users? Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat@gmail.com> - 2017-10-27 20:10 +0200
          Re: estamated number of Linux users? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-10-27 20:40 +0200
            Re: estamated number of Linux users? Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat@gmail.com> - 2017-10-27 22:10 +0200
              Re: estamated number of Linux users? Terence <terence.john@gmail.com> - 2017-10-27 22:10 +0200
            Re: estamated number of Linux users? Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-10-27 23:40 +0200
          Re: estamated number of Linux users? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-10-27 20:50 +0200
            Re: estamated number of Linux users? x9p <debian@x9p.org> - 2017-10-27 21:00 +0200
  Re: estamated number of Linux users? Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> - 2017-10-27 05:50 +0200

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