I will take free-bsd based OS X over any linux distro, but that's a personal preference. Are you saying you don't like Linux on the desktop because you don't l

I will take free-bsd based OS X over any linux distro, but that's a personal preference. Are you saying you don't like Linux on the desktop because you don't like the GNU userland (coreutils, et. al.), and prefer OS X's hybrid bsd-forked set? What do you mean by calling OS X 'freebsd-based'?