Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:31:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Struble <ian@majesticnet.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, jkb <jkb@best.com>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Linux vs. the rest of the world, poor OS comparison on web p Message-ID: <XFMail.971016165204.ian@majesticnet.com> In-Reply-To: <23043.876978950@time.cdrom.com>
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On 16-Oct-97 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Of course, I can't be sure about that, either. Let's split the >> difference (20,000,000 + 25,000)/2 = 10,000,000 within the limits of >> measurement error :-) > >Or, as I put it during my last BOF talk at USENIX when someone >asked me for an estimate, "plus or minus an order of magnitude" :-) "plus or minus an order of magnitude" was the first thing I said when I read that 3-10 million linux number(I would say estimate or even guesstimate but is it really anything more than a number?). I was really pleased to see how easy it is to register with the more recent releases. These numbers don't really mean all that much to the people who are already using FreeBSD and happy with it, but to people on the outside looking in these numbers give them a warm fuzzy feeling. Now just as long as our numbers are acurate to within an order of magnitude or two we will be doing just fine :^) Ianhelp
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