From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 15:04:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA22073 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 15:04:10 -0700 Received: from server.netcraft.co.uk (server.netcraft.co.uk [194.72.238.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA22054 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 15:04:06 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by server.netcraft.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA25167; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 23:00:12 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199508202200.XAA25167@server.netcraft.co.uk> Subject: Re: Why Linux? (fwd) To: rcarter@geli.com (Russell L. Carter) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 23:00:11 +0100 (BST) Cc: dennis@et.htp.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508182322.QAA01236@geli.clusternet> from "Russell L. Carter" at Aug 18, 95 04:22:43 pm Reply-to: paul@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1087 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Russell L. Carter who said > > From Dr. Dobbs Developer Update, September 1995, p.6, quote: > > "In the case of HTTP servers, the survey found that the most popular server > is NCSA (38.6%), followed by MacHTTP (20.8%) and CERN (18.5%), leaving about 10% > for all other servers." > That figure is wrong, by a massive margin. It's more like, NCSA (57%), CERN (19.69%), Apache (3.47%) and MacHTTP (2.83%), with Apache being the fastest growing server I think. I have a good source but it's not publically available yet. If people are interested in this sort of thing I'll announce it here when it's available. > and > > "MacHTTP is the hands-down easiest server software to install and operate, > requiring only a single mouse-click to get you on the air" > > Does this surprise anybody besides me? Evidently, ease of installation > counts for something. Who wrote the article? -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)