BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

Alaksiej C ac at belngo.info
Thu Jun 5 23:12:56 UTC 2008


I think it would be nice to have "Enable bsdstats" option in sysinstall.
Usually, an admin has enough trouble to care about, and installation of
bsdstats is out of checklist. And personal users are rarely aware of it.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
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> > As of June 5th, 2008, the project is seeing 23 998 hosts reporting in,
> with a
> > break down as follows:
> >
> >           PC-BSD           14 715 hosts
> >           FreeBSD           6 331 hosts
> >           DesktopBSD        2 662 hosts
> >           NetBSD              108 hosts
> >           MirBSD               68 hosts
> >           OpenBSD              59 hosts
> >           DragonFly            27 hosts
> >           MidnightBSD          22 hosts
> >           GNU/kFreeBSD          6 hosts
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>
> I run a couple of servers in KE and I always do check to see if the
> number grows. Since I run most of those that report the stats, it's
> something that I am always curious about, since I don't know who the
> other participants (6 more now) are:-)
> Anyway, I am surprised at how fast PC-BSD is picking up.
> I know that during installation, it prompts the installer to enable
> the submission of stats. Could this explain why there are more PC-BSD
> that there are FreeBSD?
> For FreeBSD, the owner must know about the stats and configure them to
> be submitted.
>
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