Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:31:57 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Don Witt <witt@cylogistics.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, public@lists.pcbsd.org, midnightbsd-users@stargazer.midnightbsd.org, general@desktopbsd.net, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org, announce@lists.pcbsd.org, "'Marc G. Fournier'" <scrappy@hub.org>, 'Gonzalo Martinez - Sanjuan Sanchez' <g.martinez@pcbsd.es>, 'Thorsten Glaser' <tg@mirbsd.de>, users@crater.dragonflybsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, miros-discuss@66h.42h.de Subject: Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In Message-ID: <20081104083157.GB1381@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <02fb01c93e09$b011e3c0$1035ab40$@com> References: <47BB6151991A555176831AB5@ganymede.hub.org> <02fb01c93e09$b011e3c0$1035ab40$@com>
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Quoting Don Witt, who wrote on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:12:46PM -0800 .. > This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers > accurate? They are not not at all accurate. What is being measured for FreeBSD e.g. is the willingness of people to do <quote> For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats to set things up. </quote> That has no relation with the total installed base of FreeBSD. And then there is of course the issue of corporations who do run *BSD but do not allow this kind of information to go out into the world? The other BSD derivatives are suffering from the same statistical problems. So, accurate, no, not at all. Wilko > -----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" --- End of quoted text ---
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