This is the successor of the Linux Counter Project, which was abandoned in december of 2018.
In 1993, it was started as a «For fun!» project, to find out:
How many Linux users are there? (world-wide)
The basic idea was, that people register themselves as Linux users. Of course, this way you won’t get all Linux users counted, as not every Linux user would register themself. Most Linux users are very concerned about data privacy. And for sure more then 90% of all Linux users never would register themselves anywhere for being statistically counted.
So the only way to get a somewhat accurate number of Linux users world-wide, is to make a guess (preferably a not too wild guess).
There is only one way to get a preferably accurate guess: statistics.
The Linux Counter was known on these domains:
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http://counter.li.org since 1993 until 2011 by Harald Tveit Alvestrand.
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https://www.linuxcounter.net since 2011 by Christin Löhner.
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https://www.unixcounter.com since the revival in 2021/2022 by Benjamin Marwell and Christin Löhner.
The original counter, which already started in 1993 on counter.li.org, was ran by a Non-Profit membership (organization, called «The Linux Counter Project»), which was created on the 1999-05-01. In 2011 Alexander Mieland took over the running counter from Harald Tveit Alvestrand and revived it on linuxcounter.net. In 2012 Alexander married and changed his last name to Löhner. In 2015 Alexander Löhner became Christin Löhner (transsexual woman).[1]
The Counter was slashdotted three times, while maintained by Christin Löhner.[2][3][4] In decenmber 2018 Christin decided to shutdown the project and services of the Linuxcounter due to lack of interest. in 2021 Benjamin Marwell asked Christin to revive the project.
Refer to this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Counter
If you want to contribute, please see CONTRIBUTING.adoc.
Currently we are searching for help. We would need one or maybe two java developers to help us reviving the Counter. Please contact [Christin Löhner](https://github.com/christinloehner)
If you want to contribute, please see CONTRIBUTING.adoc.
Prerequisites: Java 17+.
To compile, verify and package everything (server and client):
./mvnw verifyTo compile only the backend server:
./mvnw verify -pl web/rest-v1 -amTo compile only the client scripts:
./mvnw verify -pl scripts -amThe new code is licensed under the Apache License v2.