It probably has a lot to do with FreeBSD having a much more focused niche. FreeBSD is really tuned primarily for servers. You can use it on your desktop, but that's not really it's main purpose. Linux on the other hand, has really branched out. It has desktop distros, server distros, embedded distros, and probably a couple other areas I haven't thought of.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday March 06, 2008 @10:07PM (#22671582)
Personally, I use OpenBSD on my laptop, desktop, servers, firewalls, and any embedded devices I can find. It just plain works, without as many hassles as other OS's have given me in the past. I'm not into absolute performance and benchmarks though, as I prefer a rock-solid OS that's secure, well documented, and with easy-to-read source code. Everybody's different and has different needs and preferences. Such is life.
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Everybody's different and has different needs and preferences. Such is life.