Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:08:34 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats Message-ID: <20060827210218.Y82634@hub.org> 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 Sun, 27 Aug 2006, 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. Definitely in agreement here ... this wasn't meant as a quick-n-dirty short term analysis of *BSD usage ... this was meant to *start* a very long term project to accumulate more accurate #s then are attainable via ftp logs and CD sales ... less "guestimates" ... I figure we need to get to *at least* 10k hosts reporting in monthly before we have anything really solid to work with, so we just approaching 1/10th of the way there now ... I'm going to post some summary statistics at the end of each month, to act as a 'reminder' to those that aren't participating yet ... and trying to post follow ups to threads that talk about convincing vendors to support us natively (ie. Adobe w/ Flash) ... this should hopefully provide more concrete numbers then an 'online petition' to go at ppl like that about ... Hell, its only been, what, 2 weeks since v3.x got started, at we're doing on average 61 new hosts per day ... that means ~4 months at the current rate to hit 10k hosts ... :)
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