If vendors does not support your os and do not maintain packages for your os (which means compile-test-release cycle) it is the same as if it does not exist. T

If vendors does not support your os and do not maintain packages for your os (which means compile-test-release cycle) it is the same as if it does not exist. The curse of FreeBSD is that so-called Linux vendors doesn't take trouble to support it. There are, for example, no support for Android SDK for FreeBSD, while, being mostly Java-based it is not that difficult. The emulator and driver for debugging seems like a complicated thing, but it is not that complicated. So, when Google or even Percona will do packaging for you, then one could say that an OS makes some sense.