From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 00:39:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA19925 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:39:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19903 Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:39:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA11346; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:20:27 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost.tfs.com didn't use HELO protocol To: davidg@Root.COM cc: kline@tao.thought.org (Gary D. Kline), scrappy@hub.org (Marc G. Fournier), jkh@time.cdrom.com, questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What ever happened to... ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Dec 1995 23:23:25 PST." <199512120723.XAA00209@corbin.Root.COM> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:20:26 +0100 Message-ID: <11344.818756426@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >> And *takes deep breath* finally, how many ppl are using > >> FreeBSD right now? Does anyone have any statistics on it? > > > > I'd like to have a rough idea, too. My SWAG is > > that it's about the same as the number of > > computer users who are in the upper 0.5 percentile. > > Based on many factors, the current number being thrown about is > approximately 100,000 users. ...but this may only be accurate to within an > order of magnitude. :-) Which of course spans the range from "pretty good" to "look out Bill" :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.