From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 05:41:07 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 A785716A4DA for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 05:41:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5BE43D46 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 05:41:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k725esro028042 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:40:54 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.3/8.12.11) id k725eign024910; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:40:44 +0700 (ICT) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:40:44 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200608020540.k725eign024910@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: freebsd@hub.org In-reply-to: <20060802014844.Y27679@ganymede.hub.org> (message from User Freebsd on Wed, 2 Aug 2006 01:50:38 -0300 (ADT)) References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <871ws1v261.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060731220830.B27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060801120058.O27679@ganymede.hub.org> <17615.30414.314802.792740@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20060801223754.U27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060801230301.Q27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060802014844.Y27679@ganymede.hub.org> X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Cc: roberthuff@rcn.com, xj2106@columbia.edu, nikolas.britton@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? 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: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:41:07 -0000 Hi, Just my 2 satangs. It's nice to try to get a overall figure, but something that could be easier to indentify and would have some importance too, is the VIP users. If we can say that Google is using FreeBSD for their search engine farm, even if there are "only" 2000 machines, it may have more importance than the 200,000 John Doe's machines. olivier