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Linux has flown past BSD for reasons other than technical superiority, and more to do with the politics and ecosystem of software, especially related to lawsuit

• acdha 14y ago
  > See also: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL. This comparison doesn't hold true: while we might debate the technical superiority of the BSD kernel (and I have some NFS deadlocks to trade against ZFS), running many BSD systems is so much more work that it's more like comparing Postgres to Berkeley DB, where you have to take on responsibility for everything outside of the innermost core. I ran FreeBSD and OpenBSD on a number of systems for years but was increasingly unable to justify the sysadmin overhead. There were only a couple of times where kernel issues were significant (NFS stability and SMP scalability, esp. when amd64 came out) and since Linux actually came in ahead of FreeBSD for our applications it was really unrealistic to locally duplicated all of the Debian infrastructure.