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> And what's wrong with building special-purpose terminal servers out of 
> Linux boxes and using FreeBSD for all the other servers? After all, Linux 
> is UNIX too and all a terminal server needs to do is run a bunch of serial
> ports and maybe a few rlogins to a FreeBSD shell server.

In a word: "reliability".

... JG