Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:34:48 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia? Message-ID: <20060909051603.S981@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <4502760C.70102@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4501DE34.25561.1AFD75D6@dan.langille.org> <45022E30.4020905@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20060909001340.G981@ganymede.hub.org> <45027123.8000004@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20060909045857.C981@ganymede.hub.org> <4502760C.70102@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> Granted, but, after talking to Matt @ DragonFly, based on the fact that >> DragonFly doesn't have a port to AMD64 (it was a fork of FreeBSD 4.x) >> I've removed China/India/Korea from the list as 'overly suspicious >> numbers' ... :( > > Ah well. I guess there will be a slight delay in the inevitable onward > march of *BSD World Domination... Total hosts reporting in so far in September is ~3x what did in August ... the numbers are growing quite well ... eventually, the hope is that 'false numbers' like that won't be near as obvious, since they will be a small percentage of the overall ... Maybe they *were* legit, maybe someone in Korea did an AMD64 port of Dragonfly and hasn't submitted patches *shrug* For those that are accusing bsdstats of being a "pissing match" ... I'm personally tired of watching Linux get all the support when, IMHO, the *BSDs are the better system ... the point of bsdstats is to show ppl that do not support the *BSDs (native Flash plugin anyone?) that their is a market they are missing out on ... There are currently ~2800 hosts out there that agree with that, and growing ... If by adding the other *BSDs to the stats adds competition between us, so be it ... same with the Country stats ... so be it ... it is (or should be) a healthy competition ... I don't grimace when someone tells me they are running one of the other BSDs, but I do when someone tells me they are running Linux ... Will it result in fakers screwing around with the numbers? Definitely, but over time, the hope is that they will become a statistically insignificant number within the overall stats ... If someone out there has a suggestion on how to man 'faking it' even harder, I'm definitely all ears though ... ---- 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
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