From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 23:24:09 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 280D716A4EE for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1646243D53 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52A5291B32 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:23:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95643-06 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:24:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B0A291B2D for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:23:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E65EA5C60C; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:20:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 1ADFB497EC; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:29:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14DC9497C2; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:29:07 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:29:07 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060729022619.B27679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin , 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: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:09 -0000 On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Yes and no. Not all cvsup servers are under the control of the FreeBSD > project.... but you are right, they could log the release tag and more. > Also don't forget about website stats, mailing list subscriptions, and > ftp servers. None of which actually give you even close to accurate #s, unfortunately ... for instance, website stats ... if you were to look at the ones for freebsd.org, how many would be "Windows Browsers" :( And then we are only talking about desktops, not servers ... As to stuff like CVSup logs ... how many large deployments have one central CVSup 'downloader' while the rest in the org just feed off of that? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664