Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:57:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@hub.org, on@cs.ait.ac.th Subject: Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia? Message-ID: <200609140957.k8E9vZ9m037557@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200609140817.k8E8H1vK091852@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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[-questions removed from recipient list.] Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > [...] > > Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push > > the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting > > from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... > > 6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines to 110... ahead of > France and Australia. > > Only thing that the figures say is that they are far from being > accurate. Statistics are _never_ accurate. In this particular case they're especially inaccurate, because the bsdstats project has started just recently, and only few people are using it (5000 is probably nothing compared to the total amount of BSD machines in the world). Therefore the current numbers are hardly representative, they're skewed by regional fluctuations in the spreading of the bsdstats script. That affects not only the country distribution, but also the BSD type distribution. For example, currently debian/ kFreeBSD is at 6 while MirBSD is at 3, but I do not believe that the former is only twice as often in use as the latter. > And that people should be reminded to register from time to time. Once the periodic script is enabled, it will take care of that (at least on FreeBSD). However, there's a problem with machines that aren't running 24 hours per day (like home or office PCs). Many machines are off at the time when the monthly script would normally run. AFAIK Marc is aware of that problem and working on a solution. In fact it's a more general problem, because other periodic scripts won't run either in such cases, e.g. the update of the locate database and other things. Personally I have solved the problem by creating a small script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. At each boot it checks when the periodic scripts have been run for the last time, and runs them if necessary, recording the time. But that's only a hack that I made myself. FreeBSD needs a more general solution to the problem. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. With Perl you can manipulate text, interact with programs, talk over networks, drive Web pages, perform arbitrary precision arithmetic, and write programs that look like Snoopy swearing.
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