Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

[User Freebsd]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote:

> User Freebsd wrote:
>>> We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and
>>> portsnap server, can't we?
>>
>> What does that give?
>
> Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or
> /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being kept updated on systems
> which send HTTP requests to portsnap*.freebsd.org.  Of these, about
> 4300 are running FreeBSD 6.0, 4500 are running FreeBSD 6.1, 2400
> are running FreeBSD 6-STABLE, 300 are running FreeBSD 5.5, and the
> remaining 3500 are using copies of portsnap installed from the ports
> tree (presumably on earlier FreeBSD releases, since the portsnap
> port won't install if portsnap is already part of the FreeBSD base
> system).

BTW, is portsnap meant to replace cvsup, or ... ?  Or are we still only 
getting "half the picture" if we look at portsnap only?


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