[geeks] Why Linux and not *BSD?

[Bryan Fullerton]

On 8/3/05, velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> I think that if you consider *commercial* software, what James says
> is accurate.  Not a lot of vendors are supporting anything other than
> Linux, of the "free" OSes.

I wonder how OpenSolaris fits in there...

> I think that it is less so, if you are talking OSS, though you might
> have to do the compiling yourself in many cases.

I'm assuming my immediate reaction to that -- "Whaddya mean 'have to'?
Doesn't everyone prefer to compile their own versions of critical
applications?" -- means that I'm not really the target market most
commercial software marketeers are aiming for.

I'm quite happy running FreeBSD on my servers and Macs for my
desktops, except the one lonely PC we keep around for running
accounting and billing software.

Bryan