Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 05:20:42 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: allen campbell <allenc@verinet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <199804251220.FAA15016@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Apr 1998 02:22:47 PDT." <199804250922.CAA04054@rah.star-gate.com>
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>> > Linux is in the forefront of the free software crusade. Linux is the >> > most visible. We should all cheer the success of Linux. >> >> The Linux tide is raising all Unix boats. Support it along side >> *BSD, and run what you want. > >Yes, it is true that linux is at the forefront and that perhaps there >are lessons to be learned on how are they doing it . Food for thought: Linux started a little more than 2 years before we did. Growth of both OS's has been exponential, doubling about every year. For the past 5 years or so, Linux was estimated to have about 5 times as many users as FreeBSD; in the past year that estimated ratio has decreased to about 4 times, apparantly not because growth of FreeBSD has accelerated, but because Linux growth has decelerated. Evidence of this is in the WC CDROM sales figures for Slackware Linux where growth has slowed from exponential to linear. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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