From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 25 07:32:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA28033 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 07:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA27997 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 07:31:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.41]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA8922; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 09:35:00 +0500 Message-ID: <3541F3B4.41C67EA6@asme.org> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 09:31:16 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dg@root.com CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing References: <199804251220.FAA15016@implode.root.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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