FreeBSD Popularity

[Eitan Adler]

        Usually, they say "linux is good for servers, windows is good for
>        desktop" we need this changed to "linux is good for desktop, freebsd
>        is good for servers".
freeBSD runs very well on my desktop ;)
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> o gtar/tar/star/btar/blah
>
>        In BSD (DragonflyBSD,FreeBSD,OpenBSD) there is a real attitude
>        problem, the idea seems to be "GNU sucks and you should use BSD
>        alternatives". I like the GNU, I don't like having to have 18
>        versions of "make" around (gmake, make, bmake, smake...) or 20
>        variants of "tar". Most people don't know or care about such things.

I agree. I find it annoying when a program depends on gtar or gmake.
Why can't people just use portable options?

> I like both platforms.

Agreeds

> Tell people how great freebsd is, not how crappy linux is. Remind them
> that we're all "unix-like", so you're not loosing anything by selecting
> freebsd for server stuff, you can still use linux as a workstation.

And you could still use freeBSD a desktop or Linux as a server.