Karsten Loesing <karsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/01/16 16:54, Fabian Keil wrote: > > Karsten Loesing <karsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On 07/01/16 18:48, Fabian Keil wrote: > >>> Looking at "Tor metrics - Relays by platform" [0] one could > >>> think that the number of "FreeBSD" relays is only slightly > >>> lower than the number of "Windows" relays. > >>> > >>> It also looks like the number of "other" platforms is > >>> constantly zero while the number of "Darwin" relays is unclear > >>> (but potentially zero as well). > >>> > >>> Obviously that's incorrect: > >>> > >>> fk@r500 ~ $sudo -u _tor grep platform > >>> /usr/jails/tor-jail/var/db/tor/cached-descriptors | cut -w -f 5 > >>> | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 6662 Linux 555 Windows 286 FreeBSD > >>> 83 OpenBSD 25 Darwin 10 NetBSD 4 SunOS 4 ElectroBSD 4 Bitrig 2 > >>> DragonFly 1 GNU/kFreeBSD 1 CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW > >>> > >>> Is it possible that the "Tor metrics" count everything but > >>> "Linux" and "Windows" as FreeBSD? > >> > >> Good question. Not exactly: it's counting everything containing > >> "BSD" as "FreeBSD". Ugh. I agree that this is misleading. How > >> about we change the graph legend to "BSD"? > > > > Without further explanation that seems still a bit misleading > > because "DragonFly" and "Bitrig" are BSDs, too. In fact, > > "DragonFly" is short for "DragonFly BSD" so even a graph legend > > like "platforms that contain 'BSD'" would be misleading for someone > > who does not know the actual platform strings. > > Well, it still seems like an improvement over the current situation > where we're wrongly classifying non-FreeBSD-BSDs as FreeBSD. > > Oh, and "platforms that contain 'BSD' wouldn't fit in the legend anyway. > > Should I proceed with my earlier suggestion to change "FreeBSD" to > "BSD" in the legend? Yes, please. I agree that it's an improvement. Fabian
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