Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:29:07 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <20060729022619.B27679@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0607282216v6948bdf7yaf5ab133d1966df7@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0607281319s5da0f64ese5fa57df1ef11a4d@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607282139i51fdde5ch58525fa3347364d2@mail.gmail.com> <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <ef10de9a0607282216v6948bdf7yaf5ab133d1966df7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Yes and no. Not all cvsup servers are under the control of the FreeBSD > project.... but you are right, they could log the release tag and more. > Also don't forget about website stats, mailing list subscriptions, and > ftp servers. None of which actually give you even close to accurate #s, unfortunately ... for instance, website stats ... if you were to look at the ones for freebsd.org, how many would be "Windows Browsers" :( And then we are only talking about desktops, not servers ... As to stuff like CVSup logs ... how many large deployments have one central CVSup 'downloader' while the rest in the org just feed off of that? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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