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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!olsenc From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) 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: 21 Dec 1995 02:55:37 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4baib9$94j@nntp5.u.washington.edu> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4as2e7$91r@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4asrpo$85k@agate.berkeley.edu> <4atie8$hsv@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: misha.ee.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: olsenc Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36275 alt.os.linux:6609 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:5237 comp.os.linux.advocacy:31109 comp.os.linux.misc:76835 comp.os.linux.setup:33254 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10962 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1641 In article <4atie8$hsv@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >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 Just for kicks, I'll add that I subscribe to Linux Journal, but we wiped out Linux in our lab for FreeBSD 2.0.5 a while ago :) I find Linux Journal useful since they cover general issues about free software. I did send a quick blurb to LJ asking them to come out with a Free OS Journal, since they are halfway there to doing this anyway, but I didn't receive a reply. I will likely let my subscription run out :) -Clint