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From: bdc@transit.ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX?
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Date: 16 Aug 1993 01:41:29 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US's message of 15 Aug 1993 13:44:25 -0700
In article <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle) writes:
isolar:2:40 % ls -R1 /var/spool/news/comp/os/386bsd | egrep '^[1-9]' | wc -l
226
isolar:2:41 % ls -R1 /var/spool/news/comp/os/linux | egrep '^[1-9]' | wc -l
1593
So, at least, it would appear that Linux has won the "popularity
contest". Whether it is the "best OS you can get for the 386 class of
hardware" is still an IMHO statement, I would think. An interesting
turn of events, nonetheless.
i would hardly give the volume of postings any credit for indicating
anything, since i could claim that linux users are often coming from dos
not unix and ask a lot of newbie unix questions ( i would guess) and
since they are playing a lot of catch up with their network software i
could claim that they talk about that while we dont. not that any of
this is true, but given the s/n ratio on usenet as a whole, its hardly a
scientifc mesaure =)
-bri