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Am 17.09.2012 21:52, schrieb Lorenzo Cogotti:

> Even the userbase/time spent developing ratio matters. What also matters
> is the interest that a system shows in something, I think it's obvious
> that FreeBSD can't get much attention as a desktop system if no effort
> is put into it. It is not a bad thing being tied to the server concept,
> but I just think FreeBSD would also be an excellent desktop system with
> a little effort.

There is Debian/kFreeBSD - Debian on a FreeBSD kernel.  Not sure how
useful it is, and it probably lacks FreeBSD's userland, but well, just a
point.