From owner-freebsd-security Fri Apr 13 8:47: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6567F37B43E for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3DFkxv48091; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:46:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.3/8.11.2av) with ESMTP id f3DFksC48083; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:46:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010413114332.01a20e10@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:46:53 -0400 To: Wes Peters From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Security Announcements & Incremental Patches Cc: security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3AD70FC9.1628DB70@softweyr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:40 AM 4/13/2001 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > Agreed. It might be worthwhile to point out that Linux is gaining > > market share by leaps and bounds while FreeBSD's user base remains > > relatively stagnant for *exactly* this reason. > >Bullshit. B U L L S H I T. The "market share" of Linux and FreeBSD are >unknown and unknowable, so whatever you think they are is probably just >as WRONG as what Linus and JKH think they are, and to lump this stupid-ass >misunderstanding of what -stable is as the sole reason Linux has more >users than FreeBSD is so far beyond naive to be an out-and-out lie. You, >sir, are a scoundrel. Although I agree, its very difficult to measure, one metric that I find interesting is at http://www.netcraft.net/survey/ Yes, there are many big *s with this info, but for what its worth, I think this is a decent starting point for 'guestimating' OS market share. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message