Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:02:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler@stilyagin.com>, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org> Subject: Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats Message-ID: <44F1A5E4.20801@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0608262208k7d53fb3cs3c8623dab998f782@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060826223927.I82634@hub.org> <20060827020210.GA9218@zloy.stilyagin.com> <df9ac37c0608262100w59ee80d9maa58902d5dd35c24@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0608262208k7d53fb3cs3c8623dab998f782@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB463912459273819A44701D3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nikolas Britton wrote: > What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64 > on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie. > Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for > FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, how > much overhead do they add to the project? Woah! It's way, way too soon to start making any decisions based on the bsdstats site. There's less than a thousand machines reporting stats so far -- that's a very small fraction of the FreeBSD total machines around the world. As it is a single small company or user with half=20 a dozen machines submitting their data could have a radical effect on the ordering of many of the tables available on the site. The BSD Stats site is going to need some serious popularization before it provides a statistically significant sample. It would probably take getting the 300.bsdstats periodic job incorporated into the base system and having a 'please register your system' option fairly prominently displayed in the installer for several releases to make it really effective. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigB463912459273819A44701D3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE8aXr8Mjk52CukIwRCEpWAJkBNvAbhIAzDOvUmAgbDnxr7NSRBgCgj+xJ +5h+oOQ6/y5QOs73LQdkiIU= =oAeU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB463912459273819A44701D3--
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