Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:57:17 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sizeof(FreeBSD's user base)? Message-ID: <4214F71D.2070507@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <84dead72050216212832cc98d4@mail.gmail.com> References: <84dead72050216212832cc98d4@mail.gmail.com>
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Joseph Koshy wrote: >This is probably a FAQ. > >Do we have estimates of the size of our user-base? > > Estimates? We have hard facts ... All FreeBSD versions since 4.0 have "dialed home" with the complete output of dmesg, `cat /etc/master.passwd`, pkg_info, `cat /var/mail/*` `shar /etc/pwd.db | mail -s "heh, another one" bigbro@1984.freebsd.org` ...and so on. Oops! Sorry, I'm thinking of that *Other* operating system ... "LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER. WE WILL ADD YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE." (Fascinating article that got posted the other day...and I thank its writer....) </joke?> I do find a message from Robert Watson, about 17 months ago, discussing slides from his talk "FreeBSD is *not* Dying". At the moment, his site is not responding to me, along with a bunch of other sites that seem to comprise most of the linkage I can Google on the subject. Interestingly enough, many other sites seem fine. <joke?> I have a wonderful ISP. </joke? yeah, they pretty much are...> Here's the link he gave: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/20030910-bsdbof/ The mail was to this list, September 28, 2003. Good luck on your quest. Kevin Kinsey
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