From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 00:08:49 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 73AAE16A4DF for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:08:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0158D43D45 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:08:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA56B290C74; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:08:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31088-05; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1046) id 6C820291B01; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:08:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62844291AFE; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:08:34 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:08:34 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@hub.org To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <44F1A5E4.20801@infracaninophile.co.uk> Message-ID: <20060827210218.Y82634@hub.org> References: <20060826223927.I82634@hub.org> <20060827020210.GA9218@zloy.stilyagin.com> <44F1A5E4.20801@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Darrin Chandler , Atom Powers , Nikolas Britton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 00:08:49 -0000 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 ... :)