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Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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>
> So, we end up splitting the potential FreeBSD users between Ubuntu and
> Fedora with more of them going to Ubuntu because not quite as many become

very nice. after trying FreeBSD they WILL get back to linux (and then 
windows) quickly.

Those who REALLY know they need something different, like high 
performance good plain unix, will move to FreeBSD sooner or later :)