is FreeBSD popularity decreasing ??
andrew clarke
mail at ozzmosis.com
Sat Jun 3 11:30:47 UTC 2006
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:37:28PM +0200, Simon Streit wrote:
> > Or perhaps less people are using Google to search for "freebsd".
>
> I agree with you, because I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I hardly never
> need Google for any Information when searching.
I suspect some truly new people to FreeBSD might also search for "free
bsd" (sans quotes). Although that may not really matter. But I don't
think Google Trends is a useful measurement for anything.
It would not surprise me if FreeBSD's popularity has decreased in favour
of Mac OS X, for example. But I don't know how you'd measure that. I
suppose you would just need to ask individual people. Not rely on data
mining.
> Since I think that the
> FreeBSD Site is the best designed homepage for any resource of
> information for this distribution on comparing other Distribution sites,
> why should I use Google when I even know that I will land on the Site
> again?
True. Or if you've installed it, /usr/share/doc/handbook/, etc.
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