Does anyone else here run BSD?
Why does Linux get so much of the attention? Is it at all to do with it being GPL'd and therefore the choice by default for a lot of idealists? Is it the more organic development style? I have seen headlines about Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora, and a couple years ago the headlines were about Redhat, Suse, Mandrake, but I never see any headlines about FreeBSD this, OpenBSD that.... now bear in mind when I say that that I am referring to headlines in the more mainstream media and not Unix or Open Source media.
The reason I went BSD is because I was initially searching for an open source firewall and BSD showed up pretty prominently in the search results. I then read more about BSD, FreeBSD in particular, and its more structured and more tightly integrated development process and basically that it is more tightly controlled than GNULinux and reasoned that it could possibly be a better learning environment.
Frankly, though, I don't much care. I got started with FreeBSD, but if I see a compelling reason to switch to something else I will switch without hesitating. Apparently, all the "userland" stuff is happy to run on top of either BSD or Linux so I am not locked out of anything regardless.
From what I read, new features make it into Linux faster, but seeing as that this pretty much pertains to the kernels only, I do not see that it really makes any practical difference to me.
Anyway, if anyone else here is using a BSD, I would like to know you exist