"This is the sort of fragmentation that makes popular adoption difficult, but is also what makes Linux awesome." I agree with this in principle, but it confuse

"This is the sort of fragmentation that makes popular adoption difficult, but is also what makes Linux awesome." I agree with this in principle, but it confuses me as to why FreeBSD is not, then, much more popular... We use FreeBSD exclusively at rsync.net, and I used FreeBSD as my personal workstation from 2000 - 2007. Perhaps all the other FreeBSD people just switched to OSX, like I did.