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From: bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org (Leo Bicknell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,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 19:21:18 -0500
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In article <4avg1j$dab@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>And I disagree with your opinion that the percentage of users that buy
>a CD is low. My experiences with people in the Linux community is that
>a large percentage will purchase a CD-ROM, either with a book, or
>as a standalone CD. I base this on my work with the Linux Users
>group on the UC Berkeley campus. Almost everyone who asks me about
>Linux also asks me where they can buy a CD-ROM. No one wants to take
>the time to download the entire distribution over a 14.4 modem.
I can give you one case example. Virginia Tech decided that
freshman CS students would run FreeBSD on PC's. It was picked over
Linux in fact. These 250 students bought CD's, but they were a
special local CD we made. We have also noticed from our FTP server
that many people do download and install over the net. Of course
we are in a slightly special situation now, as apartments in town
have ethernet in them (http://www.bev.net for more information), and
the campus is slowly wiring all the dorms. I have personally
Installed both FreeBSD and NetBSD on many machines, and I have never
once even seen a Walnut Creak CDROM.
Estimating the number of users is a really hard thing to do.
--
Leo Bicknell - TMBG List Admin - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org
System Administrator / Network Technician
bicknell@ufp.org - bicknell@vt.edu - bicknell@tmbg.org