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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!csnews!boulder!coopnews.coop.net!village.org!not-for-mail From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) 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: 18 Dec 1995 22:17:53 -0700 Organization: The Village Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4b5hu1$t52@rover.village.org> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4au4fo$pbo@agate.berkeley.edu> <4av7jh$k48@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <4avg1j$dab@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.village.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30802 alt.os.linux:6526 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10763 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1607 In article <4avg1j$dab@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >Is Walnut Creek the ONLY company that sells FreeBSD CD-ROMS? No. It isn't. There are serveral others that do as well. >Hey Jordan: Is there anyway that we can get the FTP logs from >ftp.cdrom.com, and compare the number of accesses for Linux vs >FreeBSD stuff? That should be doable. However, if you weren't so lazy, you'd already have them. From time to time they are posted to freebsd-hackers, and that mailing list is archived. I seem to recall from the last time it was posted that gigabytes per day were flowing from freefall, but I don't know the % of FreeBSD v Linux v OS/2. One and a half years ago (a long time anyway), I got about 50 requests from FreeBSD users to be a beta site for OI. From that figure, I estimated there must have been something like 5,000-10,000 or so FreeBSD people at the time given how "popular" OI is/was. And that was in the FreeBSD 1.1R timeframe, and there are *BOATLOADS* more people using it now, judging from the mailing list volumes, the newsgroup volumes and the CD sales figures (something like 24,000 a year on the low side, and 100,000 a year in the high side, if I read Jordan correctly). You could also estimate the number of BSD users by the number of different users that posted to netnews :-). Warner -- Warner Losh imp@village.org The web browser is the network.