[acdha]

Do you commonly find content-free insults to be an effective form of advocacy? I've used (Free|Open)BSD over the same time period and can point to specific areas which were better (e.g. NFS client stability) or worse (e.g. package management, video drivers) compared to Linux, and both would need to be mentioned in the context of specific versions. If you want to do anything more than make people dislike BSD fanboys, try stating something specific and be prepared to back your assertions up with evidence.

[bladerunner82]

Not a fanboy, thank you, just a happy IT pro. We use and prefer BSD and attendant software because we prefer the BSD/CDDL(ZFS)/MIT and similar licenses. The GPL is off-putting for what we do, so we avoid using Linux or other GPL'd software where equivalent BSD (or similar)-licensed software is extant.

[acdha]

So that's great as a concrete reason for why you choose to do this — doesn't it seem far more useful as a thing to talk about than the vagaries of “a far better OS for what ZFS users would be wanting anyway” or the unspecified “painful times I was forced to use Linux”?