From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 21:51:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847B6106564A for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:51:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edlinuxguru@gmail.com) Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DA88FC1F for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:51:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edlinuxguru@gmail.com) Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id e11so2250401rng.7 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:51:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=IFvg4uWHr4NOCxr6ZqXr6v0MTVkSscNePNOWzNx9a/8=; b=FaKbPYIDO6ZZ7f2MHnkbld8IbM1sYbP1IDW0me6Arv6YhTpiRlyeOmrYwYFIjQ4aTko3a+YwX9M9Zu+vdQOFXhgQgTezht9tZyXyJG4I/gagIO5r0ED42JenBtyY6TDabjH637g8BEC5/o79LWcJHNnWrx7aBxUcNwo6bW0G4/0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=vppENTnHF/GVGvLXyIUT44lKb5GjVhFdFmogrzyqMqLfhE1g3rw0TMlJtZax6YgPrKV3zJXuHlN1IheKxbMMJzT0sgVLBrZusBReD+SjByCuT+qvkZgFF2pDySqdonXl0rAux+oCcQEJugRW4Hhe3GU6gTE6pjibR5Nk1SfuL94= Received: by 10.142.240.9 with SMTP id n9mr3313836wfh.6.1207691513548; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.233.1 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:51:53 -0400 From: "Edward Capriolo" To: Pollywog In-Reply-To: <200804082145.57955.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47FBE451.3070202@optonline.net> <200804082145.57955.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are some linux users saying that FreeBSD is dying X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:51:55 -0000 It would be helpful if you provided a URL for the article. I do not think they mean that FreeBSD systems are dying in terms of crashing or uptime. They might mean that the Free BSD community is not growing as fast or staying as active as the Linux community. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Pollywog wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008 21:32:01 E. J. Cerejo wrote: > > "FreeBSD is a dying OS because netcraft.com confirms it" that's the > > argument used some of these guys, and I'm wondering what data are they > > using to make their point! Even netcraft is running FreeBSD and the > > uptimes section I can see quite a few running FreeBSD and not one linux! > > Is the data from netcraft reliable? > > I think perhaps the Linux users who say those things are just trying to get > people to use Linux, for political reasons and not because Linux is > necessarily "better". > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >