[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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