FreeBSD Popularity

[Lars Engels]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:23PM -0600, Brandon Falk wrote:
> Hello there FreeBSD people,
> 
> Why is it that FreeBSD is so far behind Linux in popularity? The fact 
> that lots of companies are not very supportive of FreeBSD (ex. NVIDIA 
> and ATI 64-bit drivers) is really starting to bother me. I guess I would 
> like to have a bit of a discussion of what could be improved to increase 
> the popularity of FreeBSD, as honestly I can do almost everything in 
> FreeBSD that I can in Linux, so why can't FreeBSD thrive as much as 
> Linux. Is it that it is harder to install/configure? Any opinions/ideas 
> on this situation?

Linux was / is hyped by the media and reached a critical mass of users
and developers so that it stays in everybodys head.
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