You'd probably just spend 1/20th of your time looking at hardware BOMs. Freebsd has pretty good compatibility, and if you're buying in sufficient volumes or ma

You'd probably just spend 1/20th of your time looking at hardware BOMs. Freebsd has pretty good compatibility, and if you're buying in sufficient volumes or making / integrating boards from scratch you can just stick to the paved roads. It may not end up being quite as cheap from a BOM perspective, though.