From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 29 16:48:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from bishopston.net (catflap.bishopston.net [24.67.101.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3A737B71D for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@bishopston.net) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by bishopston.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA66087 for Freebsd-Advocacy@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 01:48:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 01:48:41 +0100 (BST) From: Jamie Jones Message-Id: <200103300048.BAA66087@bishopston.net> To: Freebsd-Advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5th in survey of used Linux distributions ! Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 | 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