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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: 24 Dec 1995 17:02:54 -0800
Organization: By the Holy Claws of Klortho the Magnificent, this IS a fine morning!
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In article <4b3264$be8@felix.junction.net>,
Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:
[On making wild-ass guesses about the userbase for both FreeBSD and Linux]
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>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.
I dunno about that. If, as is claimed by some, a lot of Linux
users are switching to FreeBSD, this would make sense, but if people
are pretty much happy with the Unix of their choice, it's meaningless.
I suspect that, for people who are sensible to only run one or
the other operating systems, that the amount of eavesdropping is
about the same.
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david parsons \bi/ We'll not talk about the barking lunatics that run
\/ both Linux and FreeBSD.