1 user, 2 desktops and 2 laptops running Slackware :)

At my house
My Desktop, CR-48 Chromebook, Dell Mini 9
Girlfriend's Desktop, Dell Latitude D620
Roommate's Desktop, Dell c840
File Server (Movies/TV, Music, Personal Slackware Repo, Pictures, backups, ... runs Samba, NFS, and minidlna)
MythTV Backend
XBMC* connected to Living Room TV
XBMC* connected to Bedroom TV
XBMC* connected to TV in work out room
A build box <-- Responsible for building and syncing our 3rd party, and changed upstream packages which are in turn dumped on the file server.
3 more desktops that the nieces and nephews use during school time for home work, research projects, and our monthly frag fests :)

In the wild
There's more than few -
All of my family, Girlfriend's family, and Roommate's family have at least one Slackware powered PC. Most of our friends also have Slackware powered PC's. Some have whole households powered by Slackware. I've installed more than a couple MythTV backend + frontend's and/or XBMC Slackware powered setups for friends, family, neighbors ....

All told, I have admin rights, and manually update possibly 50 Slackware powered devices. I use teamviewer, ssh, email, Google Hangouts with screen sharing, phone calls, and sometimes even sneaker-net :).

* The XBMC frontends were Myth frontends, but we found XBMC to have a far better interface. Plus the remote application for Android is just awesome.

We do have one other PC in the household, but it runs PfSense in a dual WAN configuration. This was powered by Slackware, but could never get dual WAN to work 100% to my liking - plus PfSense was honestly plug and play. 3 android phones, and 2 android tablets.

Why? It has no meaning and would just add clutter. I run Slackware to get rid of some of the clutter.

Sure, we don't what to annoy the paranoid. Voluntary is the way to go. But be aware, if you use google, gmail, firefox, chromium , cell phone, bank, grocery store, etc etc, you are sending stats out every day - unless you delve through the open AND hidden configs to turn that all off, run a proxy/anonymizer... Hell, just being online .... So, the paranoid can just bite my shiny, white ass.

I doubt very much that the State / Big Brother knowing I run 4 Linux boxes is going to put my in a gulag. More likely are my politics!

We can try to get LiCo to allow upload of annonymous stats without registration. OTOH, it would be easier just to do more outreach so that people know LiCo exists. On a new Slackware install, take a look at root's inbox. (PSST, PV, fix the URL!!!)

As for how LiCo derives the stats, well, especially in an election year (USA), we all know: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.' - Mark Twain.

Member Response
 

Hi,
Mod response: First, your tone and language could be a little softer.

Member Response:
No one was speaking paranoia here until now. Some just do not wish to provide data to a collective for varied reasons. Or desire additional steps. And sure one could be paranoia.

Not everyone is that paranoid about shared information when using apps or devices. Knowledgeable use of apps and devices are important but at what level does one need to be that aware or paranoid. Personal security should be important to everyone.

Again, your position. Not everyone's, especially my position is to allow the choice(s) for the user to make.

I would not do a false stat to LinuxCounter. As to the awareness, attach it to your sig as a visible way instead the link;
As to a new Slackware install mail, that's PV's responsibility. Send a Friendly note to him and see what happens. :)

Enlighten me a bit on this. I have no idea as to the relationship to a election year and LinuxCounter. I updated a long time ago. Maybe missed something.:)

Have a nice day!:hattip:

I did, yesterday.

I don't know who is counting. Anyway, 3 dekstops with slack 13.37, 1 with slack 13.1 and 2 notebooks with 13.37 (sum=6). Every machine is slackware-only.

Maybe a more appropriate title for this thread would be "How many machines running Slackware in this thread?".

Keep posting, buddies, we could end up setting a World (if not yet Olympic) Record ;)

And yes, you can count my laptop :cool:

two adults,
3 kids
3 PC boxes all run Slackware or derivative (porteus) at the moment 13.37

;-]
=2c

I like the estimations based on the guessing such as those from LinuxCounter. Here’s my attempt – it’s based on the hard facts.

I use three machines: ThinkPads T40, T60, and X60s. On all of them I run the newest Slackware version – now it’s 13.37. On each machine I can work as two users – each my user performs different tasks. Usually I work simultaneously as two users on my primary machine and as one user on the secondary one. So here are: three Slackware machines and three Slackware users. I use these machines on average for twelve hours a day including holidays so each my user works for 4380 hours a year and all my three full-time users work together for 13,140 hours a year. The regular weekday lasts for eight hours and the most of the people don’t work on holidays so the typical employee works no more than 1848 hours a year assuming the total of 231 weekdays. Some people work longer but the other people are unemployed so that average is enough good. 13,140 men-hours divided by 1848 hours a year per person gives 7.11 mens. So I’m 7.11 of a person.

Q.E.D.

Two desktops runing slackware - one dual boots with debain and the other with centos. The laptop is all slackware. But ten 99% of times I am on slackware -seriously conidering everything to slackware but then there are some things I need to learn about other operating systems. Will buy another laptop sometime next month - will install freebsd and slackware on it.
Gosh, am I a slackware freak?

One user, four personalities, two ghosts.

Slackware Server, Linux Router, RH Website, Slackware Firewall. Windows 7 on my desktop; Windows XP on a laptop. Several XP VM's for work at home. Laptop has a Slackware VM for serious work on the go.

-JJ and company.

2 Slack-current at home (32/64 bit) and 1 Slack-13.37 32 on VM at work (all with beautiful fonts thanks to dugan's guide).

You omitted to mention the daemons. Anyway I like the quoted sentence.

One laptop running slackware-current ^_^