release usage statistics...
Wolfram Schneider
wosch at freebsd.org
Sun Jun 22 12:01:54 PDT 2003
On 2003-06-20 10:42:09 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> I find it hard to belive that 5.x is not used...
>
> for instance:
> http://www.freebsd.org/statistic/release_usage/2003/2003-06-18
Hi Poul-Henning,
the release usage statistic use the data from the
www.freebsd.org log file (field User Agent).
There are some problems with this basic approach:
1) browsers with a faked user agent, e.g. Opera
2) browsers in linux emulation send Linux as OS, e.g.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386)
3) since some month Mozilla no nonger send the Version of FreeBSD,
only the OS and the hardware platform: "FreeBSD i386"
Point 3) is the biggest problem, because most users use Mozilla and
fewer and fewer people use Netscape 4.x ... The release statistic is now
useless - it is a statistic about die hard Netscape 4.x users
running old FreeBSD releases.
-Wolfram
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