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Honestly when Linux was becoming popular (moreso than minix anyway) the future of BSD UNIX was uncertain because of active lawsuits by SCO UNIX. en.wikipedia.org/…/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internation…. It was in such a bad state that lots of businesses were paralyzed and the future looked pretty bad for BSD overall. Usage was dropping and Linux was just hitting the scene. Linus Torvalds even stated that if he had heard of FreeBSD, he would have not had to make the Linux kernel. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8641073 I was a sys admin and used FreeBSD for years and even ran it on the desktop until I tried Ubuntu and Debian shortly thereafter. The hardware support for laptops and GPU support for desktops were non existent in BSD, but Debian was easy to install and was much better at gaming. Today I use a combo of Debian in servers and cachyos on my laptop and gaming computer. Linux and UNIX are vastly different in how they are implemented for security. Imagine two glasses, both 8 oz. One is titled usability and the other titled security. You have only 8 oz of water to divide among them. UNIX Is all about security. Even though you can pour a little into usability to make it do what you need to do, you’ll have to custom compile kernels and add tons of pkgs to make it more usable and that affects security. Each pkg is potentially a security issue. Linux wants to install on all the things, so tons of kernel modules are installed and gobs of software come by default. Most of their water stays on the usability glass because they don’t want you to struggle. They want it to just work right out of the box. Because of this, BSD will always lag behind in usability, and Linux will always be more liberal about security. Just my 2 cents, take it fwiw