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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
March 6, 2007 06:09
Subject:
Re: Operating System usage straw poll of participants at the GermanPerl Workshop
Message ID:
20070306150910.1b618969@pc09
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/

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