From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () Subject: Re: Estimate of # of Linux users? Date: 3 May 1993 12:00:28 GMT
In article <C6CAwI.CsK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mlandaue@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael C Landauer) writes:
>fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
>
>> >Is there a consensus estimate on the number of people currently using
>> >Linux? Obviously, I'm not looking for a precise figure, just a guess.
>
>> I've heard numbers like:
>> 5 million Linux users
>> 3.5 Million 386 BSD users
>
>>This is, of course, absurd.
>
>Absurd? Yes.
>
>I've heard there are only about 3 million OS/2 users, and I somehow doubt
>there are more Linux users (or 386 BSD users) than OS/2 users.
>
>Of course I could be wrong.
If I recall the original post, it said that these figures were based on ftp
connections/downloads or something to that effect...hmmmm...could it be that
there really aren't that many Linux users, or for that matter, that many more
linux users than 386BSD users...its just that the linux users like to/have to
do a lot of downloading of the new versions of software every few days....
Ahhhh statistics...don't you just love it...:-)
John
jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov