BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As of June 5th, 2008, the project is seeing 23 998 hosts reporting in, with a break down as follows: PC-BSD 14 715 hosts FreeBSD 6 331 hosts DesktopBSD2 662 hosts NetBSD

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > As of June 5th, 2008, the project is seeing 23 998 hosts reporting in, with a > break down as follows: > > PC-BSD 14 715 hosts > FreeBS

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, June 05, 2008 16:31:30 +0300 Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I am surprised at how fast PC-BSD is picking up. > I know that during installation, it prompts the installer to enable > the submission of stats.

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

On Thursday 05 June 2008 17:30:36 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > --On Thursday, June 05, 2008 16:31:30 +0300 Odhiambo Washington > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, I am surprised at how fast PC-BSD is picking up. > > I know that during installation, it prompts the installer to enable > > the sub

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

I think it would be nice to have "Enable bsdstats" option in sysinstall. Usually, an admin has enough trouble to care about, and installation of bsdstats is out of checklist. And personal users are rarely aware of it. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

Hi Marc, can you please post these individually to different lists next time rather than one massive cross-post? On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, I am surprised at how fast PC-BSD is picking up. > I know that during installation, it prompts t

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

Yea it's probably worth doing, but that would still only reach a small fraction of the installed instances of FreeBSD, so what will that number really give you? The number of people using sysinstall that choose to participate in this program? Somewhat interesting I guess, but that number is very

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

IMHO, you are partly right. In regard of FreeBSD at all, right now, those numbers are misleading (it's not possible to use it for any research) and unimpressive (it's not possible to use it for PR). Yet, for the guys from PC-BSD team it is already useful. Their users quantity reflected by bsdstats

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

On Thursday 05 June 2008 21:02:48 Alaksiej C wrote: > And (let's dream :) ) some social thing could be incorporated in it, like > voluntary registration in a global db, so you would be able to be connected > by/connect to ppl, who runs FreeBSD in your location. One of the coolest ideas I've heard

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Thursday, June 05, 2008 16:19:40 -0700 Murray Stokely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any large installation will image drives or perform their > own custom installation and may very well not want their competitors > to know how many machines t

Re: BSDstats: May Statistics - 23 998 Hosts Reported In

On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Alaksiej C wrote: I think it would be nice to have "Enable bsdstats" option in sysinstall. Usually, an admin has enough trouble to care about, and installation of bsdstats is out of checklist. And personal users are rarely aware of it. I'm sure patches would b