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From: nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 15 Dec 1995 22:11:04 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley
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In article <4as2e7$91r@cnn.Princeton.EDU>,
Tim Hollebeek <tim@franck.Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>An interesting definition of the term exist ... there are also no
>books on Java, for example. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I looked at an ad for Barnes and Noble in the San Francisco Chronicle
(Thursday, December 14, 1995, A27) and I found 2 books for Java.
Unfortnately, ISN numbers or author's names weren't included in the ad, so
I'll just list the titles:
Title: Java!
B&N abstract: Discover how to serve, configure, administer and support
Java on an Internet server with this detailed guide to
the cutting-edge languge. The enclosed CD-ROM contains
ready-to-use Java applets.
Pub price: $35.00
B&N's price: $28.00
Title: Presenting Java
B&N abstract: This quick inroduction to Java's basic concepts and
technical details explains how to download, install,
and use the HotJava Web browser, and covers the language,
it's applets and object-orientated programming in general.
Pub price: $25.00
B&N price: $20.00
I've seen plenty of Linux books on the market. Heck, when I go to
Barnes and Noble's, there are only slightly more UNIX books then there
are Linux books. I think the Linux section takes up more than 3 or 4
shelves.
I've never seen a FreeBSD book. And I seriously doubt that 20,000 people
are using FreeBSD.
Just for reference, the Linux journal has a distribution size of 29,000.
(source: Linux Journal, issue 20, Dec 1995, pg 65). If you figure
that the number is 5% of the actual number of Linux users, then
that would put Linux users at over half a million. Then again, 5%
seems really high, so I wouldn't doubt it if there were over a million
Linux users.
Take care,
-- Nick Kralevich
nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu