[geeks] Why Linux and not *BSD?

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Fri Aug 5 05:56:44 CDT 2005


>From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
>Date: Wed Aug 03 12:39:38 CDT 2005
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Why Linux and not *BSD?

>On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:16:22PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> There is a company that sells a version of BSD with a well rounded
>> selection of software. APPLE.
>
>I heard rumors that due to OS X, Apple is now the largest UNIX-based OS
>vendor in the world.

Maybe on a pure "number of boxes shipped" basis, since you can go back and include G3s upgraded to OS X, but certainly not on a revenue basis - I'd find that hard to believe...

Lionel



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