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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!haywire.DIALix.COM!not-for-mail From: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: The real story on Netscape Commerce Server on FreeBSD/BSDI. Date: 3 Dec 1995 00:05:40 +0800 Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. Lines: 27 Sender: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM Message-ID: <49ptgk$3mt$1@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <49g2hp$i6q@tampa2.is.ge.com> <49ha19$22f@times.tfs.com> <1995Nov29.222811.782@system9.unisys.com> <30BEA365.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: peter@haywire.dialix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9633 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1582 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: [...] > The fact that the BSD/OS product already works under FreeBSD sort > of lowers the porting incentive, as I'm sure most here can easily > see, and there's the additional fact that FreeBSD isn't really a > blip on Netscape's radar. We're pretty small, as measured by > Netscape's own navigator usage stats, and frankly pretty low on > the totem pole. I dont think it helps that by far the majority of FreeBSD systems "out there" in use today actually identify themselves as something like "BSDI unknown version i386".. FreeBSD-2.1 (on ftp, not back from CD production yet) is the first released version of FreeBSD that will allow netscape to correctly identify it's host.. eg, collecting the data that 2.0b3 gave to a fake http server: GET / HTTP/1.0 Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: Mozilla/2.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Host: jhome Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */* The actual FreeBSD usage stats would be anywhere from 10 to 1000 times higher than what netscape's server registers... -Peter