The Distrowatch BSD ranking

[bobmc]

Not sure why BSD is included in the Distrowatch ranking. I thought it was mainly for Linux. Perhaps any free operating system available for download could be included. Just idle curiosity.

OS	Rank	Hits Per Day
FreeBSD	28	353
GhostBSD	37	285
DragonFly	75	168
OpenBSD	80	157

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Thanks

<https://distrowatch.com/freebsd> we have BSD alongside Linux at the head of the page, and so on.

Missing from the list of related websites:

• FreeBSD - UnitedBSD
• maybe at least one more

– I'll arrange changes.

Spoiler: Retrospective

On 2021-04-22 4:37 p.m., Graham Perrin wrote:

> Hi
>
> At <https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freebsd> for example,
>
> <https://www.freebsd.org/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsd.org/>
>
> <https://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html>
>
> <https://forums.freebsd.org/> in lieu of
> <http://forums.freebsd.org/>
>
> <https://www.freebsd.org/docs/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html>
>
> <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/mirrors/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html>
> (an outdated edition of the FreeBSD Handbook)
>
> <http://www.freebsdwiki.net/> should go (terribly outdated, and
> FreeBSD has its own wiki)
>
> <https://www.freebsdnews.com/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsdnews.net/> (redirect)
>
> <https://blogs.freebsdish.org/> server not found
>
> <https://www.freebsddiary.org/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsddiary.org/>
>
> <http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/> should probably go (terribly
> outdated)
>
> <https://www.freebsdmall.com/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsdmall.com/>
>
> <https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry Pi> in lieu of
> <https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/Raspberry Pi>
>
> <http://www.virtualbsd.info/> should go (visually empty, technically
> blocked by Malwarebytes Browser Guard)
>
> <https://www.freshports.org/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freshports.org/>
>
> <https://www.freebsdsoftware.org/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/>
>
> <http://bsdnexus.com/> in lieu of
> <http://forums.bsdnexus.com/> (redirect)
>
> <https://freebsdfoundation.org/> in lieu of
> <http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/>
>
> <http://bsdsupport.org/> must go (redirect; no longer FreeBSD-related;
> maybe suspicious)
>
> <http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/> should go (redirect; no longer
> FreeBSD-specific)
>
> <http://bxr.su/> should probably go (searches no longer work)
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD> in lieu of
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>
>
> <http://www.gufi.org/> should probably go (nothing new for more than
> five years)
>
> <https://www.bsdforen.de/> in lieu of
> <http://www.bsdforen.de/>
>
> <https://www.bsdguru.org/> in lieu of
> <http://www.bsdguru.org/>
>
> Thank you

 

[sidetone]

At one time, and also maybe currently, Distrowatch has been hosted using FreeBSD. They also have a category for Solaris, and another one for other operating systems. If you go to search, you'll find these categories. Minix is listed under other, though, it's as Dormant.

The title says: "Use Linux, BSD".

 

[drhowarddrfine]

At one time, and also maybe currently, Distrowatch has been hosted using FreeBSD.

Yes, distrowatch runs on FreeBSD.

 

[rootbert]

for the interested: https://sitereport.netcraft.com/?url=https://distrowatch.com&refresh=1

 

[YYY__]

Until the beginning of 2000 Linux was not valued in many companies, instead BSD/Solaris did. Linux gained traction later.
Simply:

DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

distrowatch.com

 

[astyle]

Not sure why BSD is included in the Distrowatch ranking. I thought it was mainly for Linux. Perhaps any free operating system available for download could be included. Just idle curiosity.

OS	Rank	Hits Per Day
FreeBSD	28	353
GhostBSD	37	285
DragonFly	75	168
OpenBSD	80	157
NetBSD	160	50

There's also NetBSD... I filled in the table in the quote for details:

NetBSD actually makes major contributions to the world of Open Source (Even the GNU project has adopted NetBSD-sourced code for hardware drivers), but it does take being a grizzled dev to appreciate the impact - THIS is what it takes to be able to run Open Source and free stuff on newer devices. Everything else is just eye candy. Even Apache will run just about anywhere.

 

[eternal_noob]

Even Apache will run just about anywhere.

It even runs on a toaster.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

for the interested: https://sitereport.netcraft.com/?url=https://distrowatch.com&refresh=1

Thanks, <https://sitereport.netcraft.com/?ur...efresh=1#application_servers_technology_table> FreeBSD under Application Servers.

The FreeBSD Advocacy Project page content was recently modernised. In the Wayback Machine:

before | after​

 

[astyle]

It even runs on a toaster.

I was laughing about that back in 2003 . Nowadays, I want my toasters to be dumb, and have no OS - best way to have some privacy. Otherwise, Apple will have their servers full of audio recordings of my cussing them out for their insistence on being the shot-caller over my damn toaster. All I have to do is to rant for 5 minutes, and set it on an audio loop, and aim the speakers at my toaster.

 

[baaz]

I was laughing about that back in 2003 . Nowadays, I want my toasters to be dumb, and have no OS - best way to have some privacy. Otherwise, Apple will have their servers full of audio recordings of my cussing them out for their insistence on being the shot-caller over my damn toaster. All I have to do is to rant for 5 minutes, and set it on an audio loop, and aim the speakers at my toaster.

I will never forget that JUISER which connected to the internet for just perssing a packet
It used the internet to scan the qr code on juice packets and verify that they are made by them selfs
it got a 120 mil$ funding ?

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Missing from the list of related websites:

• FreeBSD - UnitedBSD
• maybe at least one more

I just realised, UnitedBSD is already listed as an alternative to FreeBSD Forums, but the link is to the entire forum (not the FreeBSD sub-forum):

What other corrections should be made to the page?

For example: UltraSPARC seems wrong, it's not tabled at <https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/>.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… maybe currently, Distrowatch has been hosted using FreeBSD. …

Amongst answers to frequently asked questions, under <https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=faq#mydistro>:

… The DistroWatch web server is currently running on a dedicated machine powered by FreeBSD. Previously we had been running Debian since late 2007; before then it was running on FreeBSD 5 and 6 (October 2004 - October 2007) and Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody".

FreeBSD has a long and turbulent history and is colloquially (categorised as) a major distribution:

 

[YYY__]

It's strange that daemonforums.org is not listed instead of unitedbsd.com, it's more than 10 years older.

but the link is to the entire forum (not the FreeBSD sub-forum)

The visitor may want to participate in the general section.

 

[YYY__]

Okay, website title and the forum sections seem to be totally focused on BSD. I didn't bother to check the content.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… strange that daemonforums.org is not listed …

It's listed, but not where you'd expect. From an e-mail sent a few hours earlier:

Hi

<https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=freebsd>

Alternative user forums

UnitedBSD can be more specific:
FreeBSD - UnitedBSD <https://www.unitedbsd.com/t/freebsd>

DaemonForums and BSDForen.de (German) are also alternatives, these two links can be moved up (from the related websites part of the table).

Thanks

 

[drhowarddrfine]

CuatroTorres I deleted my comment. I mixed up daemonforums with distrowatch.