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Something More Revelant then BSDSTATS.org
... recalling the recent thread about BSD usage statistics:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=14522 Generally http://bsdstats.org is only known by BSD users (and definitely not by all of them), so even having BIG stats out there is more or less pointless. But there is other way to 'impress' other people with BSD stats ... http://distrowatch.com portal. It mainly focuses on Linux distributions but it also gathers stats for BSDs and OpenSolaris/Solaris 'distributions'. First we would need to add www/lynx package (it does not need x11 dependency as www/links): # pkg_add -r lynx Having this simple line in all machines attached to network for 24/7 will add actual BSD users/machines count to DistroWatch portal stats: 0 4 * * * /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump -useragent="Lynx $( uname -spr )" http://distrowatch.com > /dev/null Laptop users will propably have their system up and running in different times of the day/night, so it would be better to put such line into the /etc/rc.local file, so their system will 'send' stats at boot: /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump -useragent="Lynx $( uname -spr )" http://distrowatch.com > /dev/null & Such 'lynx dump' will create that line in the logs: 8.8.8.8 - - [30/Jun/2010:14:15:24 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 75 "-" "Lynx FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64" ... so it definitely works. We can even put our favorite browser to increase its 'stats': % lynx -dump -useragent="Opera/9.80 (X11; $( uname -spr ); U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00" http://distrowatch.com ... and here is the 'opera' result: 8.8.8.8 - - [30/Jun/2010:14:19:21 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 75 "-" "Opera/9.80 (X11; FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00" Some may say 'isnt that cheating?', definitely not, we only appear one enter per one machine a day, and this DistroWatch stats are about that, 'hits per day' count about various operating systems.
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Two ways bsdstats.org may be useful... to bsd
users and even to those before install wishing to investigate hardware... if/when the "ports" tab is fixed For instance, when it was working I could see that I was practically the only one reporting the use of /glclock/; but other ports showed as being used that one could investigate. Additionally, it shows chipsets in use. (Persons wishing the explicit name of an intel nic (used) that would probably reliably work, etc).
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Some information about other users hardware MAY be useful, but there is no data if it even works on FreeBSD, how it works or if its only present in the user's computer and user uses it on the other operating system (dual boot), or do not use it at all.
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I agree with vermaden, that it isn't cheating: although I would use a cookie excepting perl script and a more robot-looking UA out of courtesy to the webmaster. As opposed to impersonating a *real* human user. Heck, my blog gets enough hits from Google-bot .
The problem is the temptation to network a couple hundred BSD boxes and hit distrowatch with each of them X times per second over cron jobs -- "Everyone says FreeBSD is a minority, but there's still enough users to crash distrowatch!" Boy, that would look cool. Shame such things go against my sense of honour :-(.
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This is just silly, if you want to get random usage statistics.. use it, this is an epic time waster.
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