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Erich Dollansky writes:

> I do not understand why it has to be promoted like this at all.

It doesn't _have_ to be, but advocacy is all about promotion.

> FreeBSD itself ist just a plain operating system.

Every operating system has its strengths and weaknesses.

> As long as the programs needed for a certain purpose are in the ports,
> FreeBSD is the choice.

Hardly.  It might be possible to get MVS to run on a PDA, but that
doesn't mean that MVS is the choice for a PDA operating system.

-- 
Anthony