From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 10:01:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA15964 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.nation-net.com (www.nation-net.com [194.159.125.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15951 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 10:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mag.nation-net.com (194.159.125.14) by www.nation-net.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:02:33 +0000 Message-ID: <32384137.73DD@nation-net.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:58:31 +0100 From: Paul Walsh X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Kelly CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Popularity References: <199609121505.PAA03856@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Kelly wrote: > > >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Casey writes: > > Jim> How popular is FreeBSD in comparrison to Linux ? > > Raw number of users? Linux has more than FreeBSD. Types of users? > Well, that's debatable. But popularity isn't the best metric to judge > an OS. We use it for commercial web servers, I am sysadmin and I'm not very bright. It never crashes, I get 110% backup from this list and wouldn't dream of switching , even to a commercial UNIX package. It is popular in our company. Regards, Paul Walsh -- paul@nation-net.com Walsh Simmons 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK