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I agree on that question, but it's also a bit strange to say, because if you think about where BSD code ends up it's a pretty big market. You have stuff where
by tete 10y ago
I agree on that question, but it's also a bit strange to say, because if you think about where BSD code ends up it's a pretty big market.
You have stuff where there is a big amount of FreeBSD code in it:
MacOS, iOS, Playstation 3/4, Cisco Routers, Juniper Routers, Android (though way less, then in the rest)
You have a couple of big names using FreeBSD in big amounts or for important parts of their infrastructure:
Facebook (WhatsApp), Netflix, NetApp, VMWare, Trivago, DuckDuckGo, Flightaware, ...
And you have big amounts of code in other projects. Stuff like OpenSSH and many libraries.
I didn't include the usual suspects, such as non router hardware manufacturers (ARM, Intel, HP, Dell, ...) that use it a lot, but they also use other stuff.
In other words: The market share I think grows if you use big companies. For smaller companies there is a rule of kind of sticking with the most used stuff. And that simply is Linux (among other things for that legal reason, already mentioned here).
- pjmlp 10y agoThe problem is that thanks to the way the license works, not all companies do upstream their changes.
- loeg 10y agoWhy is that a problem? (Or, put another way: the BSD community does not consider this to be a problem. Why do you?)
- pjmlp 10y agoI don't care as I even run Windows most of the time, but it is indeed a reason why BSD is behind GNU/Linux and the community does care. "The Trouble with FreeBSD" @ 43:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib7tFvw34DM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib7tFvw34DM
- johnsmith21006 10y agoLinux runs all of Android which is the most common OS today. But it also runs the biggest clouds in terms of infrastructure. Google and Amazon are completely built on Linux. Linux also runs 95% of the super computers in the world. As containers eat the world you will see more and more Linux, IMO. Used both since .96 Linux and for network BSD was far superior but you could feel which was going to win very early so switched once Linux was usable.
- pmarin 10y agoThe Android libc (bionic) is *BSD, mostly OpenBSD.