BSDCon Europe 2001

ark_baby writes "Theres a BSD conference scheduled for 9-11 November 2001 in england. Paper & talk submissions as well as pre bookings are now available. More info at http://www.bsdconeurope.org/"

Re:Linus calls Linux "idiotic", "broken" and "unst

[edhall]

If you check the current Netcraft survey [netcraft.com], you'll find a breakdown by OS that puts the BSD's a bit behind Solaris at about 6.3% (vs. 7.6%), with Linux at 28.5%.

More relevant to the topic, I'd be very interested if Netcraft did a breakdown by country or region both for OS and Server. It would give an idea of just how popular BSD (for example) is in Europe as a server platform. Of course, attendance at conferences like these is another measure, but independent verification of the interest level helps to show whether the conference is getting its message out or not.

-Ed

"Regional Variations" from the Netcraft survey

[cpeterso]

Regional Variations

The results summarised above are from a world-wide perspective and significant variations can occur in regional analyses. Out of 32 countries with at least 0.1% of sites on the web each, Windows computers outnumber Unix-like computers in 22 of them. The countries with the largest proportions of Windows web servers are China, South Africa and Singapore. Countries in which Unix-like operating systems maintain the strongest lead are Poland, Hungary, Japan, Russia and Germany, with Linux strong in Poland and Hungary, and BSD in Russia and Japan. Linux leads Windows in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Germany, while in Finland, home country of Linus Torvalds, Windows has a tiny lead over Linux!

Re:Linus calls Linux "idiotic", "broken" and "unst

[Arandir]

Hmmm, have you checked to see what Linux distro he uses at home? It ain't the idiotic, broken and unstable distro.

That a certain idiotic, broken and unstable distro can become the number one distro only proves that the average user Linux user isn't any more intelligent than the average Windows user.

f1r5tp057

[jmallett]

I'm not quite sure at this point if I'll be going, as so far, I'm not sure I can afford a trip over there, and I don't know what kind of crowds it will draw. In any case, it's great to see BSD users in Europa getting a decent con. I hope to see me there :)
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Re:f1r5tp057

[Espen Skoglund]

Eh... reality check. There's (almost) just as many FreeBSD core members and committers from Europe as from the US (well, at least that's what the FreeBSD xearth markers tell you), and I assume that the other BSDs (save xMach, probably ;-) have a somewhat similar distribution. I don't believe that Europeans are generally less interested in BSD than their american brethrens.

Re:Why is this not on the main page??

[trash eighty]

well never mind, i guess most BSD users check out the BSD section link every day so will see it anyway