Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:08:04 +0800 From: "jan gestre" <freebsd.ph@gmail.com> To: "User Freebsd" <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What I would like to see, or "How many FreeBSD boxen are out there?" Message-ID: <a25afc300607221308i2f743b85w77fbbc58b783baed@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060722145621.A1799@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060722145621.A1799@ganymede.hub.org>
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On 7/23/06, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> wrote: > > > On various lists, including this one, there is talk about how to we make > hardware vendors sit up and take more notice of us ... alot of the > negative responses back seem to be 'we are too small of a group', but, of > couse, nobody out there can really give any even *reasonable* numbers of > desktops and servers deployed with FreeBSD ... > > What I'd love to see is a *project initiated* (or FreeBSD Foundation) > FreeBSD reporting mechanism similar to: > > http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes/myuptimes > > Something just for FreeBSD users (well, all *BSD users should be invited) > ... uptime not being the really big thing here, but stuff like version of > FreeBSD being run, country being run in, maybe have it part dmesg on > startup and report devices in use, etc ... > > Come up with reports like # of hosts using fxp vs em devices, etc ... > although it may be a bit more difficult, I don't know, but report on > specific hardware being used ... > > Statistics that either Core, or the FreeBSD Foundation, can use to show > vendors they are talking to about what is currently in use ... but also to > show developers themselves what device drivers are actually in use, that > sort of thing ... > > Nothing that I'd think would be 'sensitive information', but information > that would be useful from either a marketing, or support, point of view > ... > > And market / promote it ... > > Basically, unless I'm mistaken, right now we have *nothing* to base > numbers on, except maybe the netcraft report(s)? ... but, that only > includes hosts running web servers ... how many are running firewalls? > desktops? mail servers? etc ... > > We need to show vendors we aren't some "hobbiest group", and towards that > end, producing some sort of up to date #s would really help, I would think > ... show them we are a market worth looking at ... > > why not make something similar to the linux counter, and let users register and have their registration number.
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