Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 18:49:11 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hcremean@vt.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) Message-ID: <19971009184911.20854@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4610.876387021@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 01:50:21AM -0700 References: <19971009025102.56709@wakky.dyn.ml.org> <4610.876387021@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 01:50:21AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> 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. It's gratifying to see that two-thirds are for 2.2.2-RELEASE. Over the time it's been available, that must be more than 1930 users per month. Is there a way to register this on the Web? Is there a way to avoid duplicates? Greg
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