Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:29:38 -0400 From: "Andy Greenwood" <greenwood.andy@gmail.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD Message-ID: <3ee9ca710609141029t3d7b9893t237b6c76ea848d80@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060914172015.GA54814@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <62007.209.103.215.99.1158241221.squirrel@email.polands.org> <20060914160919.GB53648@xor.obsecurity.org> <200609141253.15187.gerard@seibercom.net> <20060914172015.GA54814@xor.obsecurity.org>
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What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but the option is presented when setting up a new box. On 9/14/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > One should not conclude anything until the numbers are much larger > > > than they are now, because small fluctuations from e.g. regional > > > promotion of bsdstats in one country but not another, or one large > > > company deploying it on all machine, will dramatically change your > > > "conclusions". > > > > I was just wondering if there is any consensus on adding BSDStats to the > > base system? If would appear to be a logical step to take so as to insure > > that all users of FBSD would be counted. An end user could always disable > > the sending of data by disabling it in the /etc/rc.file. I feel that unless > > it is part of the base system and turned on by default, too many users will > > never take part in the reporting process. > > I highly doubt that it would be enabled by default in FreeBSD, since > many of our users (or their employers) would consider it a privacy > breach to have their systems reporting back automatically. > > Kris > > > -- I'm nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream
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