Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > What kinda of math is this?!?! It this the sorta thing they are teaching in > > public schools now? > > No, it's the sort of thing they've been posting on /. for years now. > The troll doesn't even bother to update his numbers. Based on these > numbers, every user of FreeBSD has three copies

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 10 July 2003 at 18:12:14 -0500, Chris wrote: > On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:06 pm, John Mills wrote: > Snippage... > Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there?

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread Chris
On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:06 pm, John Mills wrote: Snippage... > > >Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. > > > > > >OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How > > >many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus > > >NetBSD posts on U

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread Paul Beard
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 04:06PM, John Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Freebies - > >In fact there was an editorial suggestion in a recent _eWeek_ >(should be [http://www.eweek.com], but I can't confirm that just now.) >to the point that managers concerned about SCO's litigation should

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread John Mills
Freebies - On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Peter Elsner wrote: > The person who posted this on /. is nothing more than a troll... > > The same bunch of trolls that repeat that *BSD is dying (or dead) about > once every > couple of months... > > It's not true, it's just there to see how much panic can be

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:55:37AM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hi > > I saw this post on /. today, under the announcement about a FreeBSD 5.1 > review. > > Is there much truth is this? > How many FreeBSD servers are out there? And is there number declining? Apparently, someone in an MCSE cour

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hi > > I saw this post on /. today, under the announcement about a FreeBSD 5.1 > review. > > Is there much truth is this? > How many FreeBSD servers are out there? And is there number declining? > > I really hope that BSD will be arround for a long time

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread Peter Elsner
The person who posted this on /. is nothing more than a troll... The same bunch of trolls that repeat that *BSD is dying (or dead) about once every couple of months... It's not true, it's just there to see how much panic can be caused. FreeBSD is NOT dying, and will be around for many years to

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread David Kelly
On Thursday 10 July 2003 06:19 am, Konrad Heuer wrote: > > To my mind this contribution on /. misses some interesting and > important facts. I've been a FreeBSD user since 2.0-RELEASE and I see > the following facts: [snip] You can't smell a troll? The referenced SysAdmin magazine http://www.sama

Re: Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread Konrad Heuer
On 10 Jul 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I saw this post on /. today, under the announcement about a FreeBSD 5.1 > review. > > Is there much truth is this? > How many FreeBSD servers are out there? And is there number declining? > > I really hope that BSD will be arround for a long time to come...

Post about BSD's alleged demise on /.

2003-07-10 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hi I saw this post on /. today, under the announcement about a FreeBSD 5.1 review. Is there much truth is this? How many FreeBSD servers are out there? And is there number declining? I really hope that BSD will be arround for a long time to come... Kind regards Guy http://slashdot.org/commen