BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Nikolas Britton wrote:
>
>> What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64
>> on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie.
>> Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for
>> FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how
>> much overhead do they add to the project?
>
> Woah! It's way, way too soon to start making any decisions based on the
> bsdstats site.  There's less than a thousand machines reporting stats
> so far -- that's a very small fraction of the FreeBSD total machines
> around the world.  As it is a single small company or user with half
> a dozen machines submitting their data could have a radical effect on
> the ordering of many of the tables available on the site.
>
> The BSD Stats site is going to need some serious popularization before
> it provides a statistically significant sample.

Definitely in agreement here ... this wasn't meant as a quick-n-dirty 
short term analysis of *BSD usage ... this was meant to *start* a very 
long term project to accumulate more accurate #s then are attainable via 
ftp logs and CD sales ... less "guestimates" ...

I figure we need to get to *at least* 10k hosts reporting in monthly 
before we have anything really solid to work with, so we just approaching 
1/10th of the way there now ...

I'm going to post some summary statistics at the end of each month, to act 
as a 'reminder' to those that aren't participating yet ... and trying to 
post follow ups to threads that talk about convincing vendors to support 
us natively (ie. Adobe w/ Flash) ... this should hopefully provide more 
concrete numbers then an 'online petition' to go at ppl like that about 
...

Hell, its only been, what, 2 weeks since v3.x got started, at we're doing 
on average 61 new hosts per day ... that means ~4 months at the current 
rate to hit 10k hosts ... :)