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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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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