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Article #742Re: How many Linux users are there in.... (the UK)?
From: Nicholas John Murison
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 00:00
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Colin Brough wrote: > > I know, I know, one of those unanswerable questions... > > But I got to wondering, is there any way anyone could find out (or at > least give a justifiable estimate)? Could an ISP, for instance, tell > whether you were connecting using Linux? Is there anything in the PPP To find the number of users in the UK, you could go to http://counter.li.org, which holds statistics on how many Linux users there are. Unfortunately the statistics are based on how many Linux users have registered themselves in the counter database, so you'll have to mutliply the number for the UK with about 100. Nicholas Murison -- ******************** Don't mess with penguins ******************** Registered Linux User #153895 http://counter.li.org Capitalism is nice, but only in small doses ******************************************************************
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