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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) 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) Date: 16 Dec 1995 04:37:28 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4atie8$hsv@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4arhgi$f0c@felix.junction.net> <4as2e7$91r@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4asrpo$85k@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36046 alt.os.linux:6428 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5120 comp.os.linux.advocacy:30439 comp.os.linux.misc:75805 comp.os.linux.setup:32476 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10524 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1553 In article <4asrpo$85k@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >I've never seen a FreeBSD book. And I seriously doubt that 20,000 people >are using FreeBSD. Then you're not really in touch with the FreeBSD community and shouldn't really even presume to guess. A number of independant estimates, not conducted by anyone in the FreeBSD camp, would place the number well above that. Perhaps it's time for me to call the roll. I'll see about putting a questionaire together. BTW, I frequently hear terms like "1 million users" bandied about for Linux, which would be a far cry from the 29,000 Linux Journal subscribers you mention. Don't be fooled by subscription figures. I'm not sure whether a million is a reasonable estimate either, but I'm quite positive that there are more than 29,000 Linux users in the world! Jordan