BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Sep 14 09:09:21 PDT 2006


On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:
> I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org.   In the
> last week or so OpenBSD has "overtaken" FreeBSD in the USA.
> 
> Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced
> this project and FreeBSD admins have not; or, is OpenBSD really more
> widely deployed than FreeBSD?

One should not conclude anything until the numbers are much larger
than they are now, because small fluctuations from e.g. regional
promotion of bsdstats in one country but not another, or one large
company deploying it on all machine, will dramatically change your
"conclusions".

Kris
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