Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 09:31:16 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <3541F3B4.41C67EA6@asme.org> References: <199804251220.FAA15016@implode.root.com>
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Extrapolating a bit, this means that we have as many, or probably more, users that any single Linux distribution! OTOH maybe Slackware and other Linuxes are having a really bad moment. Pedro. David Greenman wrote: > > >> > Linux is in the forefront of the free software crusade. Linux is the > >> > most visible. We should all cheer the success of Linux. > >> > >> The Linux tide is raising all Unix boats. Support it along side > >> *BSD, and run what you want. > > > >Yes, it is true that linux is at the forefront and that perhaps there > >are lessons to be learned on how are they doing it . > > Food for thought: Linux started a little more than 2 years before we did. > Growth of both OS's has been exponential, doubling about every year. For > the past 5 years or so, Linux was estimated to have about 5 times as many > users as FreeBSD; in the past year that estimated ratio has decreased to > about 4 times, apparantly not because growth of FreeBSD has accelerated, > but because Linux growth has decelerated. Evidence of this is in the > WC CDROM sales figures for Slackware Linux where growth has slowed from > exponential to linear. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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