Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:37:29 +0100 From: Sameh Ghane <sameh@fr.clara.net> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: John Rosenberg <jcrosenberg@earthlink.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 Message-ID: <20000128153729.A64438@noc.fr.clara.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001281418330.65317-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 02:24:19PM %2B0000 References: <002001bf6996$34389ec0$b439bfa8@home> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001281418330.65317-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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Le Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 02:24:19PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick écrivit: > > I'm a little concerned where all this leaves FreeBSD. If Solaris goes > open source, or something similar, and tries to compete with w2k, plus > linux is out there growing, and BeOS will be free soon.... FreeBSD might be a > tough sell. Several guys i know say the majority of new unix installs > are Linux with few BSD. They say the only BSD users that are growing > are ISPs. Does anyone have any stats on how fast we are > growing on the desktop, or in general? What's the aim of FreeBSD ? Being used by ISPs as a reliable, fast, secure and powerful OS, or being used at home by multimedia users ? I hope it's the first one. FreeBSD is even flexible enough to give me good workstations also, I don't feel this like a problem not being able to replace windows workstations. -- Sameh Ghane To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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