Holger Schauer <schauer(a)coling.uni-freiburg.de&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... sb> The XEmacs user base has changed dramatically over the last three sb> years in favor of systems that are typically single-user. Justin Sheehy <justin(a)linus.mitre.org&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: Two things, one of which you've already discounted. Since late 1996, the most popular binary kits downloaded from ftp.xemacs.og have been for Linux. The second is based on the number of Linux CD ROM distributions XEmacs appears on. Admittedly, I also have no hard numbers on how many people have installed XEmacs off of Linux CD ROMs.