Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:46:12 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? Message-ID: <199907210046.RAA17978@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:51:40 MDT." <4.2.0.58.19990720144745.0439ef00@localhost>
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>At 01:17 PM 7/20/99 -0700, Tani Hosokawa wrote: > > >You've entirely misinterpreted the situation. The kids aren't the ones >>making Linux grow, it's the serious developers and people who work with >>Linux in the real world that do it. The kids are the hangers-ons, the >>symptoms. The actual roots lie with the professionals. > >Your assertions are inconsistent with the facts. > >If your statements above were true, then FreeBSD would be at least as >successful as Linux. It would enjoy the same installed base and growth rate. >In fact, BSD UNIX in general would be far ahead, because it has been around >longer. > >But it's not, and in fact is losing market and server share. > >Of course, I'm sure you won't allow the facts to affect your utter devotion >to the doctrine of the Church of L. Jordan Hubbard, which preaches otherwise. :-( If you're talking about free software, then Linux has been out for two years longer than FreeBSD. Current market indicators have Linux about 4 times larger installed base than FreeBSD, with both growing at a rate of approximately 2X per year. In fact what is quite amazing is how incredibly _close_ the growth rates are - nearly identical over more than 6 years. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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