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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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: 16 Dec 1995 07:54:51 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) wrote:
] 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.
I happen to know some of the subscribers are BSD people.
Actually, the majority of the Linux Journal subscribers I know
are BSD people.
So say 14,501 BSD people and 14,499 Linux people, right?
Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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