From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: Estimate of # of Linux users? Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 21:45:36 GMT
In article <1993May3.153839.26198@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> barrett@pamsrc.enet.dec.com writes:
>>These numbers were based on ftp connections to various sites
>>containing these systems. I have no idea how accurate they are, and
>>they should not be used to show that one system is better than
>>another.
>
>I will also add that some companies (like mine) "shadow" one of the
>ftp sites to a company internal disk, and people within the company
>copy from there. Obviously, this will not be included in your ftp
>figures. Also, I myself have made 3 kits from floppies to other people.
And I ftp the latest version to a local machine, from which it is distributed
locally (in theory, the CWRU student types generally ignore the local archive
and hit tsx-11 directly), rather than overloading tsx-11 with a bunch of
local requests.
++Brandon
-- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.orgIt's not too late to turn back from the "Gates" of Hell... Linux: the free 32-bit operating system, available NOW. Why waaaaaait for NT?