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From: robert@ec531667.slip.cc.uq.oz.au (Robert Brockway)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 25 Jul 1995 14:21:01 GMT
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Michael Dillon (michael@okjunc.junction.net) wrote:
: In article <3us0rg$7ph@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>,
: Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote:
: >Linux was never advertised and look at its poularity.
: >In Europe its user base is 10x that of FreeBSD.
: Wait a minute. Linux is advertised in Europe as it is advertised
: elsewhere. I believe the first book published about Linux was in Germany.
: It received a lot of positive magazine coverage in Europe.
This is akin to which came first, the chicken or the egg.
Books are printed about Linux because it is popular, not the other
way around. same with the magazines. Linux has been around since
1992, but it is only since 1994 that its name has appeared in
magazines. It was already very popular by this point.
-Robert
--Robert Brockway, email: ec531667@student.uq.edu.au
WWW: http://student.uq.edu.au/~ec531667
No silly quote today.