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From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? [WAS: Can we quit with "Linux Sucks" ?]
Date: 18 Nov 1994 01:49:20 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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Someone pointed out that why Linux has larger user base : 1st, Linux
came to the world a little bit earlier than NetBSD and FreeBSD, and 2nd
Linux is a slightly international project - coming from Europe, growing
up everywhere.
Personally I think it sounds true. However, after talking with
some Linux users, I find out they have a lot in common :
1) They are new to Unix.
2) They don't have access to a Unix workstation or other expensive PC Unices.
3) They just want to learn Unix rather than to write programs.
4) They happen to know there is a beautiful Slackware 2.0 distribution,
which looks like a typical MS-DOS installation program. So they think
Linux is another MS-DOS.
5) They love the huge HOW-TOs. They don't want to go to bookstore to
find BSD books on the large bookshelves.
As for *BSD, the users are somewhat advanced.
Yen-Wei Liu