FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> Granted, but, after talking to Matt @ DragonFly, based on the fact that
>> DragonFly doesn't have a port to AMD64 (it was a fork of FreeBSD 4.x)
>> I've removed China/India/Korea from the list as 'overly suspicious
>> numbers' ... :(
>
> Ah well.  I guess there will be a slight delay in the inevitable onward
> march of *BSD World Domination...

Total hosts reporting in so far in September is ~3x what did in August 
... the numbers are growing quite well ... eventually, the hope is that 
'false numbers' like that won't be near as obvious, since they will be a 
small percentage of the overall ...

Maybe they *were* legit, maybe someone in Korea did an AMD64 port of 
Dragonfly and hasn't submitted patches *shrug*

For those that are accusing bsdstats of being a "pissing match" ... I'm 
personally tired of watching Linux get all the support when, IMHO, the 
*BSDs are the better system ... the point of bsdstats is to show ppl that 
do not support the *BSDs (native Flash plugin anyone?) that their is a 
market they are missing out on ...

There are currently ~2800 hosts out there that agree with that, and 
growing ...

If by adding the other *BSDs to the stats adds competition between us, so 
be it ... same with the Country stats ... so be it ... it is (or should 
be) a healthy competition ... I don't grimace when someone tells me they 
are running one of the other BSDs, but I do when someone tells me they are 
running Linux ...

Will it result in fakers screwing around with the numbers?  Definitely, 
but over time, the hope is that they will become a statistically 
insignificant number within the overall stats ...

If someone out there has a suggestion on how to man 'faking it' even 
harder, I'm definitely all ears though ...

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