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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!superdec.uni.uiuc.edu!mbandy From: mbandy@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (Harf) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? [WAS: Can we quit with "Linux Sucks" ?] Date: 15 Nov 1994 02:04:38 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3a94vm$gns@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <3a9205$bqj@mall.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: superdec.uni.uiuc.edu ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw () writes: > As Jordan posted here, I just wonder why *BSD's have fewer users. I don't >think A-is-betther-than-B is the answer. It must have be some other historical >factors, rather than technical ones. > I wasn't aware of the existence of Linux until last October so I didn't know >how it's got its user base. > Does anybody has any idea ? For one thing, there's a lot more documentation around for Linux outside the man pages, and for another, installing *BSD is much harder than installing Linux (although I installed FreeBSD-2.0-ALPHA about an hour ago and it wasn't bad at all). People use Linux because it's more friendly and easy to use for most people who don't have a whole lot of experience administrating and using UNIX-like systems. -- Matt Bandy <mbandy@uni.uiuc.edu>