release usage statistics...

[Tilman Linneweh]

* Wolfram Schneider [So, 22 Jun 2003 at 21:02 GMT]:
>> 
>> I find it hard to belive that 5.x is not used...
>> 
>> for instance:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/statistic/release_usage/2003/2003-06-18
> 
> the release usage statistic use the data from the
> www.freebsd.org log file (field User Agent).
> 
> There are some problems with this basic approach:
> 
> 1) browsers with a faked user agent, e.g. Opera
> 2) browsers in linux emulation send Linux as OS, e.g.
>    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386)
> 3) since some month Mozilla no nonger send the Version of FreeBSD,
>    only the OS and the hardware platform: "FreeBSD i386"
> 
> Point 3) is the biggest problem, because most users use Mozilla and
> fewer and fewer people use Netscape 4.x ... The release statistic is now 
> useless - it is a statistic about die hard Netscape 4.x users 
> running old FreeBSD releases.
>

127.0.0.1 - - [22/Jun/2003:21:05:37 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 307 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; FreeBSD 5.1-BETA; X11; i386; de, de_DE, de_DE.ISO8859-15)"

All 5.x users should start using Konqueror :-)

(At least for browing FreeBSD.org)

scnr
tilman