Re: BSDStats: Status Report

[Aggelos Economopoulos <aoiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/05/2010 12:26 πμ, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> 2010/5/26, Marc G. Fournier<scrappy@hub.org>:
> > As of this posting, we are getting reports in from all the *BSD variants:
> >
> >     PCBSD              4 872
> >     FreeBSD            1 627
> >     DesktopBSD           154
> >     NetBSD                43
> >     OpenBSD               15
> >     DragonflyBSD          14
> >     MidnightBSD            3
> >     MirBSD                 3
>
> > The sites includes basic instructions for installing / running on the
> > various *BSDs ...
>
> Hey, man, don't you think this statistics is a bit stupid? It shows
> only how many users
> your statistics software has, not *BSD users count. And I bet you have
> it installed by
> default in PCBSD (and not others). So, what's the point?

It's a lower bound (assumming no cheating which you can't detect anyway) 
on the number of users you have, which might not be /completely/ 
useless. Using those numbers for userbase comparisons is silly of course :)

Unless the bsdstats script can do reasonably anonymous data collection 
so that we can all turn it on by default I don't see that changing.

Aggelos