Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:42:51 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg <listsub@401.cx> Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia? Message-ID: <20060914174009.A1031@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <45091621.9040200@401.cx> References: <20060908220122.E96260@ganymede.hub.org> <200609140817.k8E8H1vK091852@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <45091621.9040200@401.cx>
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: > 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. At only 5000 hosts, I wouldn't be basing any decisions anyway ... I'd like to see 10x that number, and consistently, every month before reading *too* much into them ... Its only been running about 30 days so far, so @ 5k hosts so far, and most of those *since* Sept 1st, it shouldn't take us too long ... ---- 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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