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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:69 comp.os.386bsd.misc:684 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: Why would I want LINUX? Message-ID: <1993Aug16.043533.21065@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT References: <24gnu4$skm@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <24m779$b0h@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> <BDC.93Aug15214130@transit.ai.mit.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 04:35:33 GMT Lines: 38 In article <BDC.93Aug15214130@transit.ai.mit.edu> bdc@transit.ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) writes: >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 =) A lot of the FreeBSD and NetBSD traffic has moved off to mailing lists; for instance, this is Sunday night. The combined traffic on the FreeBSD mailing list alone on Saturday (14 Aug 93) and Sunday (15 Aug 93) has been 47 messages (I have hopes for 50 before the night is out -- it's 10:20PM here right now). The group traffic is not indicative of the level of activity, only the amount of usenet postings... ie: the group traffic. This isn't counting the "merge" list traffic or the NetBSD traffic. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.