From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 27 14:02:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCAD416A4DD for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:02:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.187.76.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA9544776 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:02:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k7RE2Jox004671; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:02:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk from=m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk; sender-id=softfail; spf=softfail X-SenderID: Sendmail Sender-ID Filter v0.2.14 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk k7RE2Jox004671 Message-ID: <44F1A5E4.20801@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:02:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton References: <20060826223927.I82634@hub.org> <20060827020210.GA9218@zloy.stilyagin.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB463912459273819A44701D3" X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:02:42 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/1734/Sat Aug 26 21:48:40 2006 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_POLICY_TESTING,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: Darrin Chandler , Atom Powers , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:02:55 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB463912459273819A44701D3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nikolas Britton wrote: > What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 > on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. > Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for > FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how > much overhead do they add to the project? Woah! It's way, way too soon to start making any decisions based on the bsdstats site. There's less than a thousand machines reporting stats so far -- that's a very small fraction of the FreeBSD total machines around the world. As it is a single small company or user with half=20 a dozen machines submitting their data could have a radical effect on the ordering of many of the tables available on the site. The BSD Stats site is going to need some serious popularization before it provides a statistically significant sample. It would probably take getting the 300.bsdstats periodic job incorporated into the base system and having a 'please register your system' option fairly prominently displayed in the installer for several releases to make it really effective. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigB463912459273819A44701D3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE8aXr8Mjk52CukIwRCEpWAJkBNvAbhIAzDOvUmAgbDnxr7NSRBgCgj+xJ +5h+oOQ6/y5QOs73LQdkiIU= =oAeU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB463912459273819A44701D3--