Re: RESEND: Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-07 Thread Nikolas Britton

On 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 suggested adding a prompt to sysinstall asking if ppl wanted to
 participate, and the response I heard was that someone basically
 needed to submit a patch ... anyone here know enough about
 sysinstall to do so?

If considering work on sysinstall to improve the stats, how about
fixing some of the pitfalls that drive away prospective new users?
(IOW increase the actual number of installations rather than just
the fraction that get reported.)


Do we enough samples to accurately estimate the population using
statistics, and do we have any numbers for the total BSD user-base and
system-base?
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RESEND: Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-04 Thread perryh
 suggested adding a prompt to sysinstall asking if ppl wanted to
 participate, and the response I heard was that someone basically
 needed to submit a patch ... anyone here know enough about
 sysinstall to do so?

If considering work on sysinstall to improve the stats, how about
fixing some of the pitfalls that drive away prospective new users?
(IOW increase the actual number of installations rather than just
the fraction that get reported.)

Surely it should be possible to avoid lethal messes like a newly-
installed system that has no kernel, or a partitioning that will
not accommodate the set of components selected for installation
(resulting in failure when /usr fills up).

And no, I am not suggesting any substantial change to the overall
look and feel of the UI.  That would be too much work for, at best,
a cosmetic improvement.
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