BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In

[Justin Givens]

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 at cylogistics.com> wrote:

> This is very cool.  What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD.  Are these numbers
> accurate?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 2:34 PM
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> users at lists.dragonflybsd.org; netbsd-advocacy at netbsd.org; Thorsten Glaser;
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> 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
> )
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