BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 08:40:21 -0500 Doug Poland 
<doug at polands.org> wrote:

> I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org.   In the
> last week or so OpenBSD has "overtaken" FreeBSD in the USA.
>
> Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced
> this project and FreeBSD admins have not; or, is OpenBSD really more
> widely deployed than FreeBSD?
>
What page are you looking at?  www.bsdstats.org shows 2868 FreeBSD machines 
and 1379 OpenBSD machines.  Only in the US is OpenBSD "ahead" of FreeBSD. 
So I suppose you could say that OpenBSD admins *within* the US have 
embraced the project more willingly than FreeBSD admins or OpenBSD is more 
widely used *within* the US.  But I doubt any of this is meaningful.  It 
won't be until we get a great deal more systems reporting.  5097 systems 
worldwide must be less than 1% of the total systems in use worldwide, I 
would think.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/