BSDstats

RypPn

RypPn

I remember installing this package once about six years ago but in the end decided highlighting a system profile wasn't the best idea from a security perspective and never installed it again.

Now I note the site seems kinda broke so it begs the question, any point in this package any more?

I get the ethos behind it and from the description from this link... https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/bsdstats/

BSDstats is an attempt to produce reasonably accurate statistics on deployments of BSD operating systems. This is useful for marketing, project advocacy, hardware vendors and purchasers, device driver maintainers, and port maintainers.The major problem that we are trying to address is vendors who do not feel that BSD operating systems present enough of a market to bother supporting. Meant to be run monthly or during bootup, this script submits statistics anonymously to a central server (http://bsdstats.org).Potentially sensitive details like IP addresses and hostnames are not stored by or relayed through the BSDstats server.

So, does anyone still run this?
 
There are several threads on this forum with discussions. Use the search box at the top right. The goal of getting "reasonably accurate statistics" was never reached, nor is it clear that the approach user in it would have any chance of achieving that goal.
 
RypPn said:
So, does anyone still run this?
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I don't, but I am aware of this one: sysutils/hw-probe
bsd-hardware.info

BSD Hardware Database

A database of all the hardware that works under bsd
bsd-hardware.info bsd-hardware.info
The site is alive and I have to admit that is convenient.
Using that database one will be able to determine if some parts will supposedly work or not depending on the BSD OS.
About security lots of private information are hidden/removed (this has been discussed here already I think, but I don't have the link).
 
FWIW, I use this http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=index
with this template
Code: 
curl -v -d "nickname=$USER" -d "email=$USER@$(hostname)" -d
"description=FreeBSD/$(uname -m) on $(kenv smbios.system.maker) $(kenv smbios.system.product)" 
-d "do=addd" --data-urlencode 'dmesg@/var/run/dmesg.boot'
http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi
all goes on one line, and you should pre-check everything, especially the kenv variables. On many systems they are empty or not useful.
 
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