Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:41:50 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Karl Agee <kdagee2@yahoo.com> Cc: newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tri-City Linux user group <3clug@tricity.wsu.edu> Subject: Re: ammo to take to the boss... Message-ID: <86k81g4iup.fsf@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: Karl Agee's message of "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:26:56 -0700" References: <3B4B3AE0.46F29DBB@yahoo.com>
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Karl Agee <kdagee2@yahoo.com> writes: > So your boss doesnt think linux or freebsd can "cut it" and he believes > the microsoft fud that "nobody uses linux" or other open-source os's??? > Take a look at this article which is a compliation of all the studies > done in the last few years including the fud from redmond: > > http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html Well, it does have a few striking errors, but mostly it's good stuff. Quoting the article: 2. GNU/Linux is the #2 web serving operating system on the public Internet (counting by IP address). Much depends on what you want to measure. Several of the BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD) are OSS/FS as well; so at least a portion of the 6.3% for BSD should be added to Linux's 28.5% to determine the percentage of OSS/FS operating systems being used as web servers. What does he mean 'at least a portion'? Is BSD open source or not? It can't be 'partially open source'. Apart from a few places where like the quote above, I don't entirely agree, this seems to be a rather linux-biased but nevertheless nice article. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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