Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 16:27:49 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "perryh@pluto.rain.com" <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RESEND: Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006 Message-ID: <ef10de9a0703071427jc52c5b1uc573e68100adfb85@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45ea80b8.Qe%2BuQ8PBhjzYK3/T%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <F139E391CC4CE304DCB0CF28@ganymede.hub.org> <57114.69.48.112.156.1172869231.squirrel@email.polands.org> <ABCF5A046FADE55D3B6EFF30@ganymede.hub.org> <45ea80b8.Qe%2BuQ8PBhjzYK3/T%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On 3/4/07, perryh@pluto.rain.com <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > > suggested adding a prompt to sysinstall asking if ppl wanted to > > participate, and the response I heard was that someone basically > > needed to submit a patch ... anyone here know enough about > > sysinstall to do so? > > If considering work on sysinstall to improve the stats, how about > fixing some of the pitfalls that drive away prospective new users? > (IOW increase the actual number of installations rather than just > the fraction that get reported.) Do we enough samples to accurately estimate the population using statistics, and do we have any numbers for the total BSD user-base and system-base?
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