From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jul 10 13:42: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89EB037B403 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b115.otenet.gr [195.167.121.243]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6AKfsF21031; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:41:54 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6AKfqE46406; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:41:52 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon) To: Karl Agee Cc: newbies , Tri-City Linux user group <3clug@tricity.wsu.edu> Subject: Re: ammo to take to the boss... References: <3B4B3AE0.46F29DBB@yahoo.com> From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:41:50 +0300 In-Reply-To: Karl Agee's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:26:56 -0700" Message-ID: <86k81g4iup.fsf@hades.hell.gr> Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Karl Agee writes: > So your boss doesnt think linux or freebsd can "cut it" and he believes > the microsoft fud that "nobody uses linux" or other open-source os's??? > Take a look at this article which is a compliation of all the studies > done in the last few years including the fud from redmond: > > http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html Well, it does have a few striking errors, but mostly it's good stuff. Quoting the article: 2. GNU/Linux is the #2 web serving operating system on the public Internet (counting by IP address). Much depends on what you want to measure. Several of the BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD) are OSS/FS as well; so at least a portion of the 6.3% for BSD should be added to Linux's 28.5% to determine the percentage of OSS/FS operating systems being used as web servers. What does he mean 'at least a portion'? Is BSD open source or not? It can't be 'partially open source'. Apart from a few places where like the quote above, I don't entirely agree, this seems to be a rather linux-biased but nevertheless nice article. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message