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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD
Date: 27 Aug 1995 17:13:59 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <41ko58$rqh@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <41l9eo$17h@park.uvsc.edu> <41nfbu$sg@bell.maths.tcd.ie>
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In article <41nfbu$sg@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
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>Linux has excellent books as part of the standard distribution;
>FreeBSD does not.
Last I checked, there were no Linux books in LaTeX or DVI or
PostScript or HTML format included with the "standard distributions".
Sure, someone could sell a book+CDROM combo, but that certainly isn't
limited to Linux. I'd argue that Walnut Creek giving away free
FreeBSD Daemon T-shirts with every 2.0.5 CD-ROM set purchase at the
Toronto Comdex is a better and less expensive sales tactic. ;-)
>In my opinion this is the major single reason
>why 10 times as many people use Linux as FreeBSD.
No, there are lots of books specifically about Linux because there
are lots of people using it. A book publisher won't commit to a print
run if there isn't a perceived demand for it. Then it snowballs from
there. That's the reason why Linux is popular.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org