Since this may by of interest to others, including those maintaining ports, I've just created a dump of the history data for ports and versions reported in … not the reporting ports is optional, there appears to only be about 10% of the hosts that report in port information …
The dump is available at http://www.bsdstats.org/ports.raw.sql.bz2 it contains a postgresql dump of three tables: ports, where id == system id (anonymous data, but let's you group data) catid == link to port_category (ie. net, www) sw_id == link to port_software (ie. apache, perl) the data goes back to '07, so a fair amount of history to look at … For those unaware of what BSDstats is, check out http://www.bsdstats.org *or* /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats … short summary: An OptIn only site that accumulates statistics on *BSD related usage … as the #s show when you go to the site, it is by no means close to the # of sites using *BSD ... We are averaging over 6k hosts reporting in each month, for 7 different variants of *BSD: PC-BSD, FreeBSD, DesktopBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and MidnightBSD To participate is a simple 'make install' in /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats … at a minimum, just make sure you enable it to run monthly out of periodic … The data collected and stored is done so totally anonymously … we collect no IP *or* hostname information … each participate gets an Id that is stored in a token file that is used for reporting, which also allows the system to work through proxy / nat, since the individual ID is generated the first time you connect to the system, and used going forward … On 2011-12-10, at 11:06 PM, Alex Libman wrote: > Dear BSD Stats Team, > > I just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for bsdstats. I run it > on my *BSD installations whenever it is feasible. I am also wondering > if it would be possible to access the aggregate data in a raw format. > I am particularly curious about the ports usage data... > > Best regards, > Alex Libman _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
