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Bazon
August 18th, 2012, 09:33 PM
What I really like about the goo.gl URL-Shortener, is it's automatically generated statistics, e.g. http://goo.gl/#analytics/goo.gl/ee9IG/all_time for http://goo.gl/ee9IG (which links to the community coffee.)
Posting links at other forums gives you a good overview of the OS's used there. :-)

BUT:

why the hell is Ubuntu, according to my tests, there called "other unix"?

(debian is as well called "other unix", haven't tested any other distros.)
there IS a section called "linux", but the only way I could toggle a count there, is using my android phone. (which runs on a linux kernel as well, yes.)
Could someone tell them @Google to fix that? ;-)

Primefalcon
August 18th, 2012, 10:19 PM
What I really like about the goo.gl URL-Shortener, is it's automatically generated statistics, e.g. http://goo.gl/#analytics/goo.gl/ee9IG/all_time for http://goo.gl/ee9IG (which links to the community coffee.)
Posting links at other forums gives you a good overview of the OS's used there. :-)

BUT:

why the hell is Ubuntu, according to my tests, there called "other unix"?

(debian is as well called "other unix", haven't tested any other distros.)
there IS a section called "linux", but the only way I could toggle a count there, is using my android phone. (which runs on a linux kernel as well, yes.)
Could someone tell them @Google to fix that? ;-)
Good luck contacting google.... they have zero customer support

MadmanRB
August 19th, 2012, 03:26 AM
I imagine its out of convenience as Ubuntu has become the key word with Linux

zombifier25
August 19th, 2012, 03:47 AM
The Open Group will NOT be happy about this.

walker195
August 19th, 2012, 05:02 AM
to me ubuntu is the only unix!.... other than android

Jakin
August 19th, 2012, 05:14 AM
There is Unix and "other unix" and "unix like" collectively called the "unix family" or that's how i have always read it.

In the case of Ubuntu/linux, it would be proper to call it "other unix" i would think.

AllRadioisDead
August 19th, 2012, 05:27 AM
to me ubuntu is the only unix!.... other than android

>implying Linux is Unix at all