From: alan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Al Petrofsky) Subject: Re: How many Linux Users are there? Date: 21 May 1992 03:21:26 GMT
Enclosed below is the April usenet ratings report for selected *.os.*
groups. It estimates alt.os.linux readership at 23,000, and
comp.os.linux readership at 20,000. comp.os.minix is still ahead at
43,000, but I predict this won't last long.
Make of this what you will,
-al
(I just realized I left out all the comp.unix.* groups. Whoops.
You'll have to check the original article yourself if you're
interested.)
In article <1992May2.130426.27289@PA.dec.com> reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) writes:
Newsgroups: news.lists
From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
Summary: data for all groups
Keywords: arbitron, statistics, full
Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory
Date: Sat, 2 May 92 13:04:26 GMT
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This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for Apr 92.
Explanations of the figures are in a companion posting.
+-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
| +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
| | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
| | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
| | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
| | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage
| | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr
| | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
| | | | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V V V
131 53000 1051 85% 1099 2327.0 5% 0.08 2.3% comp.os.vms
194 43000 856 82% 259 1065.8 3% 0.04 1.8% comp.os.minix
209 41000 819 79% 54 75.5 4% 0.00 1.8% comp.os.mach
437 24000 468 81% 91 167.8 7% 0.01 1.0% comp.os.cpm
452 23000 452 51% 337 762.9 19% 0.04 1.0% alt.os.linux
456 22000 446 79% 106 171.1 3% 0.01 1.0% comp.os.os9
492 21000 416 74% 244 399.9 0% 0.03 0.9% comp.os.coherent
515 20000 388 47% 1114 2065.4 11% 0.10 0.8% comp.os.linux
522 19000 380 49% 136 216.3 17% 0.01 0.8% comp.os.os2
575 17000 338 79% 4 4.0 0% 0.00 0.7% comp.os.xinu
619 15000 299 68% 1 0.7 0% 0.00 0.6% comp.os.v
658 14000 270 73% 17 28.3 0% 0.00 0.6% comp.os.aos
725 12000 232 63% 105 309.1 0% 0.03 0.5% comp.os.vxworks