From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 8:34:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D4A37B402 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 08:34:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16iHt4-000HDa-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:34:02 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 6E79213040 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:34:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id E4DB222593; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:34:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:34:00 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac, the Nix's and other notes... Message-ID: <20020305163400.GA705@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:04:15AM -0600, Steven Lake wrote: > Was doing some reading on slashdot and some other sites and ran > into some rather interesting information. One of them being that in > Japan, the most popular PC/OS is Mac. In Europe it's Linux and in places > like africa, believe it or not, dos and win 3.1 of all things. :) > Probubly because they're still using a lot of our old discarded 486 > machines. FreeBSD was on one of the lists of OS's currently in use and > their relationship to the PC market as a whole. While no one OS or system > took president, the Nix's in general (this counts linux as well) was a > far first, with the Microsoft Windows operating system line taking a > misserable 5th place with less than 8%. > Yes and the moon is made of green cheese. I long ago learnt that "accuracy" and "slashdot" are not two words that should occur in the same sentence, unless the first word is negated. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message