Operating systems
 

Compiled from logs for December 2011.

Of my posts for the year, I'd estimate that ~40-45% are Linux based, otherwise Windows 7.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;284425]Of my posts for the year, I'd estimate that ~40-45% are Linux based, otherwise Windows 7.[/QUOTE]Hmm. I wonder how many Win 3.x systems are really out there. Perhaps I should get some of my antiques out of storage and really screw with the statistics for this year. I've a nice little WinCE netbook and a few boxes that run elderly versions of Windows.

Incidentally, modern Macs run Unix, a BSD-variant to be precise, and it's very surprising that your stats show so many OS-9 systems and so few OX-X. :wink:

Paul

I am assuming my android phone counts as linux(maybe unknown). Phones like mine probably skew the statistics towards linux if you are actually thinking about pcs.

[QUOTE=henryzz;284487]I am assuming my android phone counts as linux(maybe unknown). Phones like mine probably skew the statistics towards linux if you are actually thinking about pcs.[/QUOTE]

I would think phones are likely OS Unknown

Just out of curiosity, what does the "pages" metric represent? I understand "reqs" (# of page requests) but was a bit confused about how "pages" could be zero for some OS's that have nonzero "reqs"; I was thinking they might be number of actual HTML pages requested (as opposed to auxiliary images and the like) but the zeros seemed to throw a monkey wrench into that.

On another note, did anyone notice that Windows 98 had exactly 98 in the "pages" metric? I wonder if there's a method to the madness there... :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=xilman;284454]Hmm. I wonder how many Win 3.x systems are really out there. Perhaps I should get some of my antiques out of storage and really screw with the statistics for this year. I've a nice little WinCE netbook and a few boxes that run elderly versions of Windows.

Paul[/QUOTE]
I take it these stats have to do with visits to the forum? If so, count one here... :smile:

Rodrigo

[QUOTE=xilman;284454]Perhaps I should get some of my antiques out of storage and really screw with the statistics for this year. I've a nice little WinCE netbook and a few boxes that run elderly versions of Windows.[/QUOTE]
Is there a browser for Win 1.2? I have a copy laying around somewhere.

I wonder how many people spoof their headers?

[size=1]For the record, I don't bother to spoof mine (except for the referer [sic] header).[/size]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;287109]Is there a browser for Win 1.2? I have a copy laying around somewhere.[/QUOTE]I very, very much doubt it, not least because MSFT didn't really discover IP networking until much later.

Not seen a copy of Win1.x lying around since rummaging around on \\boneyard when I was a Microsoftie. Come to that, I've never seen a copy of Win1.x anywhere [b]except[/b] \\boneyard. I have seen an honest-to-$DEITY installation of Win2.x on a 286 machine many years ago.

Currently playing around with Sparc64 BSD and Linux. FreeBSD 5.0 and Gentoo 20120116 to be precise. When I left FlyBase ([url]http://www.flybase.org[/url]) I scrounged an otherwise useless SunBlade 2500. It was the home everything-server for a couple of years until its disk caught a nasty attack of death. A couple of days ago, I acquired another surplus SunBlade 2500 and I'm now in the process of building one functional system out of two semi-broken ones. When all's done, it will be a dual-proc (two 1.3GHz 64-bit cpus) with 4G RAM --- a rather mighty beast by the standards of when they were new in 2003 or so.


Paul

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;287109]Is there a browser for Win 1.2? I have a copy laying around somewhere.[/QUOTE]
I'd be surprised if there were one. Windows 1 came out in the mid-'80s, and the Web didn't start taking off till the early '90s. And Windows itself didn't really catch on till the 3.x versions at about the same time.

Might be interesting to see if Netscape or some other early browser is "backwards compatible" with Windows 1.x or 2.x.

Rodrigo