Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:59:58 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics Message-ID: <20071205165958.65950ed4.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <47570885.7090800@netscape.net> References: <3356169C998DEAF517CD854B@ganymede.hub.org> <47570885.7090800@netscape.net>
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In response to Tore Lund <toreld@netscape.net>: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > Percentage Change in November from October: > > > > Overall - 2.5% > > > > Broken down as: > > > > DesktopBSD + 31.8% ( 737 hosts) > > DragonFly + 9.5% ( 23 hosts) > > FreeBSD + 8.4% (5008 hosts) > > GNU/kFreeBSD -100.0% ( 0 hosts) > > MidnightBSD +133.3% ( 14 hosts) > > MirBSD - 28.6% ( 5 hosts) > > NetBSD + 7.2% ( 119 hosts) > > OpenBSD + 11.3% ( 79 hosts) > > PC-BSD - 13.5% (6551 hosts) > > When I go to www.bsdstats.org, I see these figures: > > Systems > This Month Percentage > FreeBSD 5,041 67.5 % Oh no! This is now 5044! > PC-BSD 1,997 26.7 % > DesktopBSD 241 3.2 % > NetBSD 99 1.3 % > OpenBSD 56 0.7 % > DragonFly 24 0.3 % > MidnightBSD 12 0.2 % > > So, what's happening here? When you install the stats program it registers you, then the sites statistics get updated. > Is it too early in December for some BSD > varieties to report yet? I've no idea what you're imagining this program does ... > Whatever the answer, PC-BSD has hardly lost > more than 2/3 of its users since November, so something is fishy here. Huh? > In any case, it would be nice to see a DATE somewhere on these pages. Date of what? The stats are live. > Thanks for your efforts, BTW. I just ran bsdstats myself. See. This is your fault, if people like you keep installing it, the numbers will keep changing! -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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