On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:09:53 +0100, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > While I was in the audience at the German Perl Workshop I was peeking > at peoples laptops to see what they were using, (and trying to see > what kind of new laptop id like to buy) and was somewhat surprised by > the OS'es in use. > > So I organized a straw poll to get some numbers. Keep in mind people > could vote more than once. Nevertheless I think the numbers are > interesting, I certainly didn't expect to see so many Windows machines > in use given the nature of the crowd. > > Operating System OS Class Count > Win32 Win32 41 > Debian Linux 36 > SUSE Linux 26 > Solaris Unix 24 > Ubuntu Linux 22 > BSD Unix 19 > Red Hat Linux 16 > OS-X Unix 14 > Gentoo Linux 4 > AIX Unix 2 > HP/UX Unix 2 AIX or HP-UX on a *laptop*??? Wow! > Mandriva Linux 2 > Slackware Linux 2 > VMS VMS 2 Same for VMS > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > OS Class > Linux 108 > Unix 61 > VMS 2 > Win32 41 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Total Result 212 -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.2, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next