From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 27 16:15:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC97E16A4DE for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:15:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5B8443AC for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:54:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1406279wxd for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:54:00 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DHyAcKnXp+dGsMePB9xmSuSTyWST2ObiAKv6vqtEIlrBRqciU5u5/Mdn2J9ZbkO1PzgaW/5NqHT0CsCYEla0ByS2bvKHUwfSt2JCUayUjJ/Q/UhH7PZ0ph254ditDz0lvw7GY0PH6DBnXvLie6zFDxtTtyFw1QMrJHSMrmaVai8= Received: by 10.70.51.17 with SMTP id y17mr7806907wxy; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:52:29 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Matthew Seaman" In-Reply-To: <44F1A5E4.20801@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060826223927.I82634@hub.org> <20060827020210.GA9218@zloy.stilyagin.com> <44F1A5E4.20801@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Darrin Chandler , Atom Powers , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:15:39 -0000 On 8/27/06, Matthew Seaman 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/