From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 9 08:01:32 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 8B61F16A407 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 08:01:32 +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 2A84943D72 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 08:01:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03360291B10; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:01:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 91125-03-2; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:01:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6735B291B03; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:01:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 77C1260516; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:01:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7064E5E824; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:01:26 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:01:26 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <45027123.8000004@infracaninophile.co.uk> Message-ID: <20060909045857.C981@ganymede.hub.org> References: <4501DE34.25561.1AFD75D6@dan.langille.org> <45022E30.4020905@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20060909001340.G981@ganymede.hub.org> <45027123.8000004@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia? 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: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:01:32 -0000 On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Interesting. The 300.bsdstats script seems to except OpenBSD and NetBSD > from the device reporting stuff, but not DFly. > > That does look extremely consistent with the known supported platforms > and versions of the various BSDs. As you say, if it is someone playing > games, then they have gone to a great deal of trouble to invent realistic > data. On the other hand, if it is real, and since it seems to come from > a single IP so we can assume it's all from one project or corporate entity, > then it sounds like a very interesting project I'd like to hear more about, > and I'm sure that the advocacy@ crowd would love to present as a 'BSD > Success Story' Granted, but, after talking to Matt @ DragonFly, based on the fact that DragonFly doesn't have a port to AMD64 (it was a fork of FreeBSD 4.x) I've removed China/India/Korea from the list as 'overly suspicious numbers' ... :( > Apropos nothing else though -- can you add 'operating_system' columns > along side the 'release' columns on the 'Releases' page. Counting > OpenBSD 4.0 along with FreeBSD 4.0 doesn't make a whole lot of sense. All ready being worked on :) Each OS will have their own set of 'detail pages' ... ---- 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