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From: fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes)
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)
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Date: 22 Dec 1995 02:14:23 GMT
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
: 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?
The number of Linux users is hard to pin down. The last time I had a
decent count of CDs sold they were running at about 40,000/month but that
is not guaranteed to be accurate and CDs does not equal systems. (For
example, our office runs Linux on 20 machines but the install was from one
CD. On the other hand, we have bought many CDs over the past two years.)
If you are a Linux Journal reader and use *BSD and not Linux let us know.
You can e-mail ljeditor@ssc.com and tell us your story. We really are in
this business to do what our readers ask for. So far, virtually all
letters have come from Linux users.
--
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)PUBS-REF
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