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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:01:26 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?
Message-ID:  <20060909045857.C981@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <45027123.8000004@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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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' ...

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