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To: Eric Wells who wrote (1046)9/8/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: Eric Sandeen  Read Replies (1) of 1794
 
Eric - I'll barge in. :-)

One of the most prevalent success stories is that of Apache, the open source web server. See netcraft.com for info on market share of the various web servers, but here are the current stats this month:

Apache (55%)
Microsoft (22%)
Netscape (7%)

Another very successful project is SAMBA which allows a Unix box to act like an NT server in terms of shared disk space, printers, and other tasks normally performed by NT for Windows clients. samba.org This is probably running in the back offices of many companies, transparently providing services normally performed by NT. With managers who crow about how their "NT" fileserver never goes down. :-)

The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org) is a great drawing program for Linux. Looks fairly simple on the surface, but it's actually very powerful.

Regarding Linus's contributions - I can't remember the stats, but very little of the current kernel code is actually "his" anymore. And that's just the kernel. Linus had no direct involvement with the vast majority of the hundreds of packages that make up a "Linux" system. Usually, when people say "Linux" they are referring to the Linux kernel and all of the packages that support and interoperate with it.
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