Re: BSDStats: Status Report

[Mikel King <mikel.king@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 25, 2010, at 17:26, Alexander Polakov <polachok@gmail.com> 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?
>
> --
> Alexander Polakov | plhk.ru


Alex,

Installation of the reporting script is a voluntary install, however  
pcbsd as an OS has elected to turn it on by default. Do you have a  
better way of gathering these advocacy stats?

m!