Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2009 partial summary, part 2 - from first 10

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:39:06 +0200

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Johan Herland wrote:
> On Monday 17 August 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > 9) On which operating system(s) do you use Git?
> >    (Choice - Multiple answers)
> >
> > On Unix-based operating system you can get the name of operation
> > system by running 'uname'.
> 
> I find it interesting to compare the answers to this question against 
> previous years' surveys:
> 
> =============================================================
> Operating system            | 2009 [%] | 2008 [%] | 2007 [%]
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Linux                       |      88% |      86% |      90%
> MacOS X (Darwin)            |      44% |      47% |      15%
> MS Windows/Cygwin           |       9% |      10% |      >3%?
> MS Windows/msysGit (MINGW)  |      21% |      16% |      >0%?
> ............................|..........|..........|..........
> MS Windows (any)            |      27% |     <26%?|       9%

Whet might be also interesting is to have (also) bare numbers of
responses.  Percentage alone wouldn't tell full story.  If you have
(for example) 1000 Linux users, and there gets released native MacOS X
binary installer, and here comes 500 MacOS X users, the percentage
would decrease, because there are now more users, some of which are
not Linux users.

=================================================
Operating system            | 2009 | 2008 | 2007#
-------------------------------------------------
Linux                       | 2623 | 2434 |  582
MacOS X (Darwin)            | 1304 | 1330 |   94
MS Windows/Cygwin           |  279 |  297 |   22
MS Windows/msysGit (MINGW)  |  625 |  452 |    1
............................|......|......|......
MS Windows (any)            |  820 |  749?|   58*
----------------------------+------+------+------
Answers                     | 2991 | 2842 |  645       
=================================================

Footnotes:
[#] First download on current msysGit page is from Aug 2007
[*] Including unspecified version of Git for MS Windows.
[?] "Other, please specify" not included.  It also doesn't
    take into account overlap (one might use both msysGit and Cygwin
    version, e.g. on different computers)

-- 
Jakub Narebski

Git User's Survey 2009: http://tinyurl.com/GitSurvey2009