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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why isn't NetBSD popular?
Date: 15 Aug 1995 01:09:20 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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jerijian@typhoon.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian) wrote:
] I'm posting this message to all appropriate newsgroups.
] I'm interested in hearing what makes FreeBSD and Linux much
] more popular than NetBSD.
Part of it (if we're basing this strictly on news group numbers
or registration servers) has got to be the installation. You
can't evangelize something you can't install.
Part of it is you are looking only at the PC platform part of
the picture. NetBSD is, by far, the most popular free OS for
non-Intel platforms, bar none.
Looking at NetBSD from the viewpoint of platforms supported,
NetBSD is wildly more popular than both FreeBSD and Linux.
Installing with a 'dd' command and requiring an existing OS on
several of those platforms *does* tend to stack the deck against
NetBSD's overall popularity -- that's straight back at install,
though.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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