Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 22:34:27 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: From Slashdot... Message-ID: <199902010634.WAA00763@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Feb 1999 07:23:06 %2B0100." <XFMail.990201072306.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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>On 01-Feb-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: >> Does anyone have an clue as to what the ratio is of >> Linux->FreeBSD? Reasonably intelligent estimates? > >http://www.slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=currentkernel&aid=-1 > >Linux 2.2.* 4918 /25% >Linux 2.2.0ac 702 / 3% >Linux 2.1.* 1805 / 9% >Linux 2.0.* 7864 / 41% >Older Linux 178 / 0% >*BSD 1043 / 5% >Proprietary OS 1748 / 9% >Other 874 / 4% > >19133 total votes Uh, I wouldn't consider slashdot to be anything close to accurate since it has always been basically a Linux forum. The Linux:FreeBSD ratio has typically been estimated around 5:1 wordwide, although there is some evidence that this may have narrowed a bit to 4:1 or better. I don't draw this estimate from any single source; it comes from CDROM sales numbers, newsgroup postings, FTP downloads, etc. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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