Wildly popular is an understatement. The last number I heard
on unix variations was just over 200. Now if you are a fortune
500 size company, which flavor are you going to pick ?

Would you really base a corporate sized accounting system on
a o/s that's supported by several folks who like to dabble in
programming ?

Those programs you mention are popular and in some cases very
successful, but to who ??? Mostly gear heads who love the art
form and the cheap prices.

Scott Klement wrote:


Yet, we have a plethora of successful open source operating systems. Linux, of course, and open source BSD dervatives (MacOS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD) are wildly popular and successful.


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