[aklug] The Linux Counter

Greetings:

For those of you with entries in the Linux Counter (http://counter.li.org)
it's a new year! If you can please log in and verify your information,
perhaps make sure all of your machines are registered as well. :-)

About the Linux Counter:

Purpose of the Linux Counter
The Linux Counter is started as a "for fun" project to find out how many
Linux users there are worldwide. The basic idea is for people to register
themselves as being a Linux user. Of course, this way you won't get all
Linux users counted as not every Linux user will register himself at the
Linux Counter site.
Thus, the only way to "know" the number of Linux users worldwide, is to make
a guess, preferably a not-too-wild guess of the number of Linux users. Not
making wild guesses there is only one way to go: statistics.

So, the main purpose of the Linux Counter is to deal with statistics on all
kinds of numbers related to Linux usage. It started with statistics on the
number of Linux users and it extended to statistics on Linux users, the
machines they use, software they use and in what part of the world Linux
users are actually living.

A second purpose of the Linux Counter is to make it possible for Linux users
to find each other. The Linux Counter is reporting Linux users sorted per
almost any place in the world. So, when Linux users want their information
to be public, you can quite simply find those users who live in places near
you.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Mon Jan 28 15:31:13 2008