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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 18:49:11 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: hcremean@vt.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd)
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On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 01:50:21AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> Amen to that...it would be nice to know what the FreeBSD userbase count is
>> like, but since it's not payware, noone knows for sure. The only sales
>> numbers that really exist, I would imagine, are for the CD sets, and that
>> would definitely be an understatement, since not everyone gets FreeBSD on
>> CD.
>
> The only "hard data" so far (aside from the CD sales figures, which I
> unfortunately can't disclose) has come from the FreeBSD registration
> counter which started up on March 10th (gee, it's just coming up on an
> even 7 months, isn't it?) and, since then, has collected:
>
> There are 13505 users registered in total.
> Counts by OS version (top 10 entries):
>         2.2.2-RELEASE: 9021
>         2.2.1-RELEASE: 2907
>         2.2-RELEASE: 643
>         2.1.7.1-RELEASE: 360
>         2.2-970625-RELENG: 66
>         3.0-970807-SNAP: 57
>         2.2-GAMMA: 47
>         2.2-970815-RELENG: 40
>         3.0-970618-SNAP: 39
>         2.2-970422-RELENG: 30
>
> I'm not sure what one could extrapolate from these figures (except
> that the average registration rate is 1930 users a month?) but there
> they are, FWIW.

It's gratifying to see that two-thirds are for 2.2.2-RELEASE.  Over
the time it's been available, that must be more than 1930 users per
month.

Is there a way to register this on the Web?  Is there a way to avoid
duplicates?

Greg