Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 01:50:21 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hcremean@vt.edu Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) Message-ID: <4610.876387021@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Oct 1997 02:51:02 EDT." <19971009025102.56709@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
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> Amen to that...it would be nice to know what the FreeBSD userbase count is
> like, but since it's not payware, noone knows for sure. The only sales
> numbers that really exist, I would imagine, are for the CD sets, and that
> would definitely be an understatement, since not everyone gets FreeBSD on
> CD.
The only "hard data" so far (aside from the CD sales figures, which I
unfortunately can't disclose) has come from the FreeBSD registration
counter which started up on March 10th (gee, it's just coming up on an
even 7 months, isn't it?) and, since then, has collected:
There are 13505 users registered in total.
Counts by OS version (top 10 entries):
2.2.2-RELEASE: 9021
2.2.1-RELEASE: 2907
2.2-RELEASE: 643
2.1.7.1-RELEASE: 360
2.2-970625-RELENG: 66
3.0-970807-SNAP: 57
2.2-GAMMA: 47
2.2-970815-RELENG: 40
3.0-970618-SNAP: 39
2.2-970422-RELENG: 30
I'm not sure what one could extrapolate from these figures (except
that the average registration rate is 1930 users a month?) but there
they are, FWIW.
Jordan
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