On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:

[snip]
> There are AFAIK three differnet *BSD versions. There are somewhere around=
 10
> or 20 linux distributions around.=20
[snip]

Hi,

using "Linux Weekly News", I tracked the number of known Linux distribs
during my spare time. On the 24th of Febuary 2000, there was *106 distribs*=
=2E

Short history: there was around 20 distribs in April 1999, then a big "hop"
during summer 1999 (76 distribs by the end of August!), and since then, the
rate of growth is around 0-3 new distribs *per week* (weekly news...).
To be fair, most of the increase is caused by translating (one language =3D=
 one
distrib), mixed with some "specific & friendly install tool", and, a quite =
new
tendancy, "focused distribs" (security, conviviality, ease of use, server,
geek-oriented, dead end users, etc.).

However, note that this number *does not* take into account the different
versions (freely downloadable, boxed edition, "pro"-edition, etc.) of a sam=
e
distribution (i.e. "RedHat" counts for one).

As a self-titled expert, I can predict that this number will continue to gr=
ow,
especially with the brand new incoming "Embedded Systems".

my .02 euros, and an aspirine :)

Samuel Lacas
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Of course it runs NetBSD
Bien s=FBr qu'il court NetBSD