Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:28:08 -0700 From: "Justin Givens" <justin@sigsegv.ca> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In Message-ID: <5da021490811031628h5b481d47p5e55866884252b32@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <02fb01c93e09$b011e3c0$1035ab40$@com> References: <47BB6151991A555176831AB5@ganymede.hub.org> <02fb01c93e09$b011e3c0$1035ab40$@com>
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Those are only boxes that "report in" -- as it says, PC-BSD is the only one that automatically reports. The rest don't by default. That means that those figures are not really accurate for overall usage, except for PC-BSD. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Don Witt <witt@cylogistics.com> wrote: > This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers > accurate? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 2:34 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; > users@lists.dragonflybsd.org; netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org; Thorsten Glaser; > Gonzalo Martinez - Sanjuan Sanchez; > midnightbsd-users@stargazer.midnightbsd.org; miros-discuss@66h.42h.de; > general@desktopbsd.net; announce@lists.pcbsd.org; public@lists.pcbsd.org > Subject: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In > > > As of November 3rd, 2008, the project has hit a new milestone of 25 000+ > hosts > reporting in, with a break down as follows: > > PC-BSD 17 454 hosts > FreeBSD 5 526 hosts > DesktopBSD 1 919 hosts > NetBSD 86 hosts > MirBSD 21 hosts > OpenBSD 55 hosts > DragonFly 26 hosts > MidnightBSD 26 hosts > GNU/kFreeBSD 2 hosts > > We currently have hosts being reported in from 135 countries, with the top > 10 > being: > > United States 6 082 > Russian Federation 1 836 > Germany 1 586 > Australia 1 341 > Ukraine 997 > France 930 > Japan 898 > United Kingdom 791 > Canada 767 > Brazil 729 > > Project URL: http://www.bsdstats.org > > Project Objective: > > "The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for advocacy > and > marketing of the *BSD operating systems." > > > PC-BSD, to the best of our knowledge, is the only one that defaults to > enabled, > while the rest have to be enabled manually. > > For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to > set > things up. > > If you aren't participating, we very much encourage you to start ... the > report > script is a shell script, so you can scan it to figure out what, exactly, > is > > being sent in .. and there is only one level of reporting that is > required, > > and that is Operating System + Version ... Device and Ports reporting are > 100% > optional ... > > For those that are participating ... once more, thank you ... and spread > the > word, we need more ... > > > If you have any questions, please feel free to email me ... > > -- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org > ) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >
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