From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 14 16:09:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 02C3E16A416 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:09:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A083D43D58 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:09:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775E71A3C20; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E61F6513F0; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:09:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:09:19 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Doug Poland Message-ID: <20060914160919.GB53648@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <62007.209.103.215.99.1158241221.squirrel@email.polands.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <62007.209.103.215.99.1158241221.squirrel@email.polands.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD 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: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:09:21 -0000 --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the > last week or so OpenBSD has "overtaken" FreeBSD in the USA. >=20 > Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced > this project and FreeBSD admins have not; or, is OpenBSD really more > widely deployed than FreeBSD? One should not conclude anything until the numbers are much larger than they are now, because small fluctuations from e.g. regional promotion of bsdstats in one country but not another, or one large company deploying it on all machine, will dramatically change your "conclusions". Kris --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFCX6vWry0BWjoQKURAvnCAJ9GuWO3VcfG6B9KKz0LQv1f/Vv23gCffRMf K8dIXRGB7KDnwfE90NxBQks= =skS/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50--