Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 05:01:26 -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: <20060909045857.C981@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <45027123.8000004@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>
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On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Interesting. The 300.bsdstats script seems to except OpenBSD and NetBSD > from the device reporting stuff, but not DFly. > > That does look extremely consistent with the known supported platforms > and versions of the various BSDs. As you say, if it is someone playing > games, then they have gone to a great deal of trouble to invent realistic > data. On the other hand, if it is real, and since it seems to come from > a single IP so we can assume it's all from one project or corporate entity, > then it sounds like a very interesting project I'd like to hear more about, > and I'm sure that the advocacy@ crowd would love to present as a 'BSD > Success Story' 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' ... :( > Apropos nothing else though -- can you add 'operating_system' columns > along side the 'release' columns on the 'Releases' page. Counting > OpenBSD 4.0 along with FreeBSD 4.0 doesn't make a whole lot of sense. All ready being worked on :) Each OS will have their own set of 'detail pages' ... ---- 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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