Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 01:48:41 +0100 (BST) From: Jamie Jones <jamie@bishopston.net> To: Freebsd-Advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5th in survey of used Linux distributions ! Message-ID: <200103300048.BAA66087@bishopston.net>
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"The Register" reports on a survey conducted amongst Web Developers regarding the Linux distributions they use: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17973.html The survey iteself, carried out by Evans-Data is linked from the article, and is at: http://www.evansdata.com/dist.htm Interestingly, FreeBSD came 5th(!) Here is an email I sent the author of the "Register" article, Andrew Orlowski : | From: Jamie Jones <jamie@bishopston.net> | Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 01:38:51 +0100 (BST) | Message-Id: <200103300038.BAA59062@bishopston.net> | To: andrew.orlowski@theregister.co.uk | Subject: RE: 'Forgotten' distros stealing Linux developers' mindshare | | > SuSE and Mandrake come joint second, a nose ahead of Caldera and FreeBSD. | | Interesting how FreeBSD came so high, considering it *isn't* a Linux | distribution - it's a Free version of the BSD operating system, and has | nothing to do with Linux (see www.freebsd.org) | | I remember a quiz show where 100 members of the public had been polled | to name a word beginning with "Z", and the contestants had to guess the | top 5 answers. They didn't get the last one on the list - "Xylophone", | with 3 votes! | | I wonder how highly FreeBSD would have faired if the question had been | "Which distributions are being used?" rather than "Which Linux | distributions are being used?" | | Regards, | Jamie Cheers, Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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