From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 14 20:44:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3D716A403; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:44:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF7243D46; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:44:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B843A464A; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:43:52 -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 60175-08; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:42:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89AA53A40C7; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:42:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id D42AF5C451; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:42:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC6D48168; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:42:51 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:42:51 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg In-Reply-To: <45091621.9040200@401.cx> Message-ID: <20060914174009.A1031@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060908220122.E96260@ganymede.hub.org> <200609140817.k8E8H1vK091852@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <45091621.9040200@401.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Olivier Nicole , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:44:06 -0000 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