BSDStats.org

[Gerard]

We're just short of 5000 users this month

[mogchr]

BSD Stats doesn't really seem to say much, I mean, aren't there more than 5000 users that use PC-BSD?

[Gerard]

It could well be.
Hopefully it is, but it all depends whether users have ticked the box "anonymously ping bsdstats" during installation

[Charles]

I consider BSDStats trustworthy. But I think this month has had more "users" than usual due to the Beta1 announcement. People tend to install it just out of curiosity :roll:

[angryfirelord]

If you look at the bottom of this forum page:

We have 10126 registered users

Therefore, it's already wrong.

[Charles]

Oh, no, don't trust this forum users figure, the huge majority are spambots to post backlinks, LOL.

But as far as BSDStats are concerned, for instance I test PC-BSD 4-5 times a month and each time I leave the "Report to BSDStats" option on, so in this case I count for 4-5 people, see...

[angryfirelord]

lol ok, but I can assure you that even without the spambots, there are more than 5000 users simply because of how long FreeBSD is around. I also highly doubt that there's one Debian/kFreeBSD user.

[Charles]

If you rely on the number of forums users, then I should be considered user for all the linux distros which I've used over the last 6 years, which is not true, I only tested them for some time and left them.