15 Oct 2003 07:29
[GNU/LinuxInIndia] GNULinuxInIndia Oct 15, 2003
Frederick Noronha (FN <fred <at> bytesforall.org>
2003-10-15 05:29:41 GMT
2003-10-15 05:29:41 GMT
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Formerly LinuxInIndia * Compiled by: Frederick Noronha * Oct 15,2003
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INDIA... AT THE LINUX COUNTER: Linux Counter has a total of 138722
people registered. 1407 users have been registered by friends.
There are 124367 machines registered. This network guesstimates that
between 0.2% and 5% of all Linux users have registered with the
Linux Counter. So the total number of Linux users is probably
between 2,774,440 and 69,361,000 people.
Among the country-wide ratings, India is ranked only 137th overall,
when judged by GNU/Linux uers per million population. But in terms
of overall number of GNU/Linux users registered, India with 2843
registered users is only behind the US (28514 registered users),
Germany (11307), Brazil (9785), France (6479), Spain (5558), Great
Britain (5307), Canada (4600), Italy (4517), the Netherlands (3595),
Sweden (3300), Finland (3137 users). India is ahead of Russia,
Mexico and China. Probably improved connectivity to the Net here
would make more people aware of the Linux Counter, and give users a
better chance to register.
Linux Counter recently completed 10 years of its existance. This
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