Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:01:50 +0000 From: Liam Foy <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Less messages to FreeBSD.org lists Message-ID: <401420AE.9060702@sepulcrum.org> In-Reply-To: <20040125194721.GA28036@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4013EA9D.6040808@cream.org> <20040125134151.M52260@mail.tacorp.net> <20040125185753.GA12995@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <40141B3D.9070901@cream.org> <20040125194721.GA28036@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:38:37PM +0000, Andrew Boothman wrote: > > > >>Agreed, but it would seem surprising to me that FreeBSD's installed base >>is growing and mailing list traffic isn't. We have no method for >>estimating the number of installed FreeBSD boxes, but I would have >>thought that mailing list traffic was quite a good indicator. >> >> > >Statistics are available and have been posted from time to time in the >past. CD sales, FTP downloads, website traffic from FreeBSD clients, >Netcraft webserver counts, etc. I don't recall any other indications >of shrinking user base (on the contrary, my memory is that they >support robust growth). > > Apart from Netcraft, do you have any links to these sources please? I would love to see some of the statistics. > > >>Perhaps we're just so good and documenting now, that nobody needs to ask >>a question? ;) >> >> > >Don't underestimate that possibility. A hell of a lot of work has >gone into improving the documentation, and a lot of mailing list >traffic is in the category of newbie questions that are answered in >the documentation. > >Kris > I strongly agree with what Kris said, the documentation team have done a fantastic job in enabling then to finding quick and simple answers to most newbie questions. -Liam Foy
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