[Midnightbsd-users] BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In
Gary Kline
kline at thought.org
Mon Nov 3 19:10:59 EST 2008
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:12:46PM -0800, Don Witt wrote:
> This is very cool. What is up with NetBSD and OpenBSD. Are these numbers
> accurate?
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
[ ... ]
>
> 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 ...
Hey Marc,
I think I set up a few months ago; wanted to be sure I was counted.
For some reason I thought there were ballpark a million BSD sites.
Gaawk! wow, was I ever off the mark.
(*glum*) * 0.5;
gary
>
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