Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:43:13 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@401.cx> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd@hub.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia? Message-ID: <45091621.9040200@401.cx> In-Reply-To: <200609140817.k8E8H1vK091852@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20060908220122.E96260@ganymede.hub.org> <200609140817.k8E8H1vK091852@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push >> the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting >> from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... > > 6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines to 110... ahead of > France and Australia. This is a long shot, but couldn't it just be that a portal or usergroup of some kind started promoting bsdstats? Lets say a BSD usergroup in Thailand posted a notice on the first page about bsdstats. The usergroup has 200 visitors a day and half of them decides to follow the advice and install bsdstats. That would explain the sudden burst of 100 machines. Another plausible explanation is that an administrator of some network with 100 or so workstations or servers decided to push out bsdstats as a nightly upgrade or similar. It does not seem totally impossible to me, alltough I would not base any major decision on those figures without checking them first. -- R
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