Re: bsdstats.org

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 1:18 PM -0400 9/11/06, Adrian Michael Nida wrote:
> IIRC, OpenBSD still has their dmesg@xxxxxxxxxxx mail account to
> collect hardware information.  NYCBUG also has something similar:
>
> http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd;SQLIMIT=20
>
> I'm content with the post-install "Would you like to submit your
> information" question.  I don't know why on Earth this script has
> to be put in periodic though.  What am I missing?

The idea is to track how many machines are actively running *BSD.
If all we know is that you installed *BSD last month, then we have
no idea if you're still running it this month.

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