Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:04:56 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@ontario.mooseriver.com> To: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commercial Tripwire available for Linux, not FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990224230455.A11162@ontario.mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <36D4D0A7.A1CA0E81@verinet.com>; from Allen Campbell on Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:25:11PM -0700 References: <199902250340.UAA22559@usr07.primenet.com> <36D4D0A7.A1CA0E81@verinet.com>
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On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:25:11PM -0700, Allen Campbell wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > The person who answered the phone said that he doubted there would ever be > > > > an implementation for FreeBSD because "no one uses it." When I pointed out > > > > that FreeBSD's estimated user base is two thirds that of Linux, > > > > > > You probably lost him at this point. > > > > Yeah. > > > > Just say it's 66% of Linux's installed base. > > > > Let him use the estimate for Linux to inflate FreeBSD's figures, since > > there's really no count of the Linux installed base, other than estimates. > > Red Hat is saying ten million according to Bob Young during a CNN > interview aired tonight. Prior to that, the oft quoted number was seven > million. Total guesswork. Why not eleven million? Fifteen? Who could > possibly contradict him with any more credibility? Read his paper on estimating the installed base of Linux. It's pure hand waving. I suspect that Bob Young did not take statistics in University. I did and if I had turned in work like that I would have flunked. If he can say 10 million then I can say the installed base of FreeBSD is 6 million. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.1 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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