To Linux einai eleu8era dia8esimo, kai kaneis den xreiazetai na kanei kapoioy eidoys registration gia to antigrafo toys me kapoia kentrikh ejoysiodothmenh omada h atomo, etsi einai polu duskolo na ma8ei kaneis akribws posoi xrhsimopoioun to Linux. Yparxoyn arketes epixeirhseis twra poy epibiwnoyn apokleistika poylwntas kai yposthrizontas to Linux kai einai sxetika mikros o ari8mos twn xrhstwn poy xrhsimopoioun aytes tis epixeirhseis, kai ta newsgroups toy Linux einai apo ta pio baria fortwmena se oloklhro to Internet, ara o ari8mos twn xrhstwn toy Linux einai ths tajews twn ekatontadwn xiliadwn, alla einai mallon adunato na ma8oyme pragmatika akribh noumera. Parol' ayta, mia gennaia cyxh, o Harald T. Alvestrand, apofasise na dokimasei, kai zhtaei an xrhsimopoieite to Linux, na steilete ena mhnyma sthn dieu8ynsh linux-counter@uninett.no me ena apo ta parakatw subjects: ``I use Linux at home'', ``I use Linux at work'', or ``I use Linux at home and at work''. Metraei, epishs, akoma kai tis chfoys tupoy ``I don't use Linux'', gia kapoio logo. Stelnei tis metrhseis toy sto comp.os.linux.misc.