From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 28 6:38:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pouet.noc.fr.clara.net (headache.noc.fr.clara.net [212.43.195.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CB414F51 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:38:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sameh@fr.clara.net) Received: by pouet.noc.fr.clara.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0F193333; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:37:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:37:29 +0100 From: Sameh Ghane To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: John Rosenberg , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 Message-ID: <20000128153729.A64438@noc.fr.clara.net> References: <002001bf6996$34389ec0$b439bfa8@home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 02:24:19PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Le Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 02:24:19PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick écrivit: > > I'm a little concerned where all this leaves FreeBSD. If Solaris goes > open source, or something similar, and tries to compete with w2k, plus > linux is out there growing, and BeOS will be free soon.... FreeBSD might be a > tough sell. Several guys i know say the majority of new unix installs > are Linux with few BSD. They say the only BSD users that are growing > are ISPs. Does anyone have any stats on how fast we are > growing on the desktop, or in general? What's the aim of FreeBSD ? Being used by ISPs as a reliable, fast, secure and powerful OS, or being used at home by multimedia users ? I hope it's the first one. FreeBSD is even flexible enough to give me good workstations also, I don't feel this like a problem not being able to replace windows workstations. -- Sameh Ghane To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message