Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:42:42 +0100 From: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BBC survey.... Message-ID: <20070126094241.GA77116@glitch.carpetsmoker.net> In-Reply-To: <1169791677.29783.12.camel@localhost> References: <1169791677.29783.12.camel@localhost>
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On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:07:57AM -0200, Sergio Lenzi wrote: > Hello.... alll > > Even FreeBSD, or even any BSD (ok, OSX is BSD...) is mention in > the BBC survey, I notice that: OSX is _NOT_ FreeBSD. It has a different kernel (based on Mach 3) and only uses userland tools from FreeBSD, most of which are probably modified by the OSX team. It also adds a lot of stuff (GUI for example) > 1) They claim that 90% of the persons use windows, but in the > publish list, is just the contrary... only 2 ones use windows, > and like it, and one of them just for games.... It's probably more than 90%, the last study I saw (~2 years ago) said that 98% of the users used windows. Remember, a lot of users are completely unaware that there is a such a thing as an operating system. The people who reacted to the BBC article are computer nerds, and are not representative for the average computer user. Also, there is a _BIG_ difference in the desktop OS market and the server OS market > 2) The person that likes windows vista, likes it because he > can make a good backup to save things when he lost them, > this shows a common thing that happens when you use windows... (you > will lost something)... > so you need backups, winzips, winrars, avg, norton... and zilions > of useless things > that make your computer work better.. when in reality, all you need > is a good gnome 2.16 or > a kde 3.5.4... This can happen on FreeBSD to, the most common reason for loss of data is hard disk failure, which has nothing to do with windows. > 3) 90% of the persons use the computer to write documents, access > internet, and use email. > so the number or persons using Mac and Linux is rasing.... > 4) To use the vista, probably you will need an upgrade... (a good > graphics for directx10, > 64bit cpu, and 2 gb of memory...) here will cost 1000 dollars.. > 5) more than half of the persons were windows users and switched to OSX > or Linux Not a shocking fact, since DOS/Windows has has a monopoly on the desktop OS market for more than 15 years... > Here in my country (Brazil) I am selling notebooks with FreeBSD and > gnome 2.16 > to high executives. and is doing well.. so it shows that the success of > the computer > is in the easy of use and not in the features it has.... The more > important the person > in the company, the easy to use and less features must have the > computer..... so > for me, gnome is the best choice..... > > Sergio
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