FreeBSD branches stats

[Oliver Fromme]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
 > Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
 > > BTW, is it possible to gather statistics from the cvsup and cvs servers
 > > to get some figures about the use of FreeBSD branches ?
 > 
 > Wouldn't be very meaningful, since almost by definition anyone still
 > using 4.x isn't aggressively tracking RELENG_4 (since a) there is
 > almost nothing to track, and b) such people will mostly have already
 > followed along to 6.x).

That's probably right.

However, there are release statistics at
http://bsdstats.org/releases.php

At the time of this writing, it's 1344 (6.x) vs 1152 (4.x).
However, those numbers are probably not very meaningful
either, because they represent only a very small fraction
of all FreeBSD users.

Best regards
   Oliver

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