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To: Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: Re: how many users of FreeBSD are there? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:30:43 -0800
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>Does anyone have any close idea of how many active users of FreeBSD thee
>might be.? say, how many on this mail list for eg? or the number of
>CD's sold?
>There seem to be an increasing number of web servers in the world using
>FreeBSD and Apache, and I just wondered?

   Jordan thinks there are about 1/2 million. I think the number is lower than
that (but >100,000). It would be safe to say that there are 500,000 +- 1 order
of magnitude. :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project