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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsrelay.netins.net!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!yale!news.ycc.yale.edu!not-for-mail From: adonis@mramirez.sy.yale.edu (Adonis Caldwell) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 19 Dec 1995 00:22:43 -0500 Organization: Marc's Little FreeBSD Computer Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4b5i73$7hl@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4au4fo$pbo@agate.berkeley.edu> <4au7e5$ql4@agate.berkeley.edu> <4b3264$be8@felix.junction.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mramirez.sy.yale.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30762 alt.os.linux:6518 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10742 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1601 In article <4b3264$be8@felix.junction.net>, Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote: > >If we look at some mailing lists for ISP's then there are 500 on the >linux list and 260 on the two FreeBSD lists or 50% of the Linux numbers. >I think this is less accurate because there are likely to be more curious >Linux users on the FreeBSD lists than vice versa. just for the record, there are currently five people that have in their possession the FreeBSD 2.1 PatchKit (heretofore know as PKv1.0). this puts the userbase at about twice the number of free bytes after I load Multics on my apple IIgs. >>These are new customers, and not subscription customers. That would >>imply that the user base is growing by *at least* 24,000 a year if you >>take the roughest side of my estimate and scale accordingly. The > >And Walnut Creek is not the only company selling a FreeBSD CD-ROM. someone (can't name names) has also offered to press my finger onto a CD-ROM for distribution purposes (that's not all we discussed pressing, but that's another thread entirely). Look out for PKv1.0 in the future! >-- >Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 >Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 >http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com Adonis. -- Flash Light! Shine it on the funk!