From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 08:05:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA09874 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA09867 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA03856; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:05:30 GMT Message-Id: <199609121505.PAA03856@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.4/16.2) id AA244230737; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:05:37 -0600 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 09:05:37 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: jimcasey@sprynet.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <32377EB8.9D7@sprynet.com> (message from Jim Casey on Wed, 11 Sep 1996 23:08:40 -0400) Subject: Re: Popularity Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Casey writes: Jim> How popular is FreeBSD in comparrison to Linux ? Raw number of users? Linux has more than FreeBSD. Types of users? Well, that's debatable. But popularity isn't the best metric to judge an OS. MS-DOS has more users than Linux and FreeBSD combined, but it's a crappy OS. Jim> Linux was ok, But I am wondering if FreeBsd would be more like Jim> SCO. FreeBSD will be closer to SCO in some regards, while Linux will be in others. Give it a try, and draw your own conclusions. If you need any help with installation, just ask us here at "questions@freebsd.org". -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/