Yeah, these comparisons suffer from the fact Linux really is just a kernel: There's no single Linux community, no single Linux technical standard, etc. Instead,

Yeah, these comparisons suffer from the fact Linux really is just a kernel: There's no single Linux community, no single Linux technical standard, etc. Instead, we have Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc., all sharing software but not necessarily sharing culture or methodology. (And on the Linux side, we have people who apparently believe that the distro you choose determines what desktop environment you have to run. If I hear about one more person dropping Ubuntu because of Unity ... I'll get more confused, I suppose, and wonder why they don't just install Window Maker or Xfce or something else from the package repos and use that, instead.) It would be more enlightening to pick a specific distro to do your comparing to, as a specific version of a BSD project (OpenBSD, say) is more comparable to a whole Linux distribution than to a specific version of the Linux kernel.