Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:52:29 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org> Subject: Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608270852j37b6475fwde2850c0e957389f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44F1A5E4.20801@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20060826223927.I82634@hub.org> <20060827020210.GA9218@zloy.stilyagin.com> <df9ac37c0608262100w59ee80d9maa58902d5dd35c24@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0608262208k7d53fb3cs3c8623dab998f782@mail.gmail.com> <44F1A5E4.20801@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 8/27/06, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 > > on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. > > Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for > > FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how > > much overhead do they add to the project? > > Woah! It's way, way too soon to start making any decisions based on the > bsdstats site. There's less than a thousand machines reporting stats > so far -- that's a very small fraction of the FreeBSD total machines > around the world. As it is a single small company or user with half > a dozen machines submitting their data could have a radical effect on > the ordering of many of the tables available on the site. > > The BSD Stats site is going to need some serious popularization before > it provides a statistically significant sample. It would probably take > getting the 300.bsdstats periodic job incorporated into the base > system and having a 'please register your system' option fairly > prominently displayed in the installer for several releases to make it > really effective. > I'm being devils advocate here, we don't need to make any rash decisions etc... It's just something to think about. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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