Re: bsdstats.org

[Erik Wikström <erik-wikstrom@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-09-11 19:18, Adrian Michael Nida wrote:
> <Snip/>
> > FreeBSD once had an "installation counter" many years ago
> > (it's long dead and gone), which worked exactly like that,
> > i.e. after finishing the actual installation, sysinstall
> > asked whether it should be reported.  If you said "yes", an
> > e-mail was sent to some pseudo account.
> <Snip/>
> > This is the only one currently in existence that I'm aware of.
> <Snip/>
>
> 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 goal is probably not to see how many BSDs are installed but rather 
how many are actually in use.

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Erik Wikström