Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:56:28 -0500 From: Hub- FreeBSD <freebsd@hub.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: antony@mawer.org, fabrizio@nldesign.com, scrappy@freebsd.org, alex@libman.us Subject: Re: Thank you for bsdstats! Message-ID: <214308D4-AB41-4FA5-BF65-4FA94793E496@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <1323576406.11525.140661010093757@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1323576406.11525.140661010093757@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Since this may by of interest to others, including those maintaining = ports, I've just created a dump of the history data for ports and = versions reported in =85 not the reporting ports is optional, there = appears to only be about 10% of the hosts that report in port = information =85 The dump is available at http://www.bsdstats.org/ports.raw.sql.bz2 it contains a postgresql dump of three tables: ports, where id =3D=3D system id (anonymous data, but let's you group data) catid =3D=3D link to port_category (ie. net, www) sw_id =3D=3D link to port_software (ie. apache, perl) the data goes back to '07, so a fair amount of history to look at =85 For those unaware of what BSDstats is, check out http://www.bsdstats.org = *or* /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats =85 short summary: An OptIn only site that accumulates statistics on *BSD related usage =85 = as the #s show when you go to the site, it is by no means close to the # = of sites using *BSD ... We are averaging over 6k hosts reporting in each month, for 7 different = variants of *BSD: PC-BSD, FreeBSD, DesktopBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and = MidnightBSD=20 To participate is a simple 'make install' in = /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats =85 at a minimum, just make sure you enable = it to run monthly out of periodic =85=20 The data collected and stored is done so totally anonymously =85 we = collect no IP *or* hostname information =85 each participate gets an Id = that is stored in a token file that is used for reporting, which also = allows the system to work through proxy / nat, since the individual ID = is generated the first time you connect to the system, and used going = forward =85 On 2011-12-10, at 11:06 PM, Alex Libman wrote: > Dear BSD Stats Team, >=20 > I just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for bsdstats. I run it > on my *BSD installations whenever it is feasible. I am also wondering > if it would be possible to access the aggregate data in a raw format. > I am particularly curious about the ports usage data... >=20 > Best regards, > Alex Libman
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