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by beanjuiceII 812 days ago
Yep you can pick from any distro you want.. freebsd openbsd netbsd pcbsd dragonflybsd etc etc etc each special petals like lisp languages or something
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PC-BSD is long dead.

It's much simpler than you represent.

There are only 4 real trees here:

* FreeBSD

* NetBSD

* OpenBSD

* Dragonfly BSD

In very approximate order, and I suspect that there are (wild approximation) half as many users for each step down the list.

One estimate I've seen is that there are ~7K users of openBSD, in total, worldwide.

There are a few distros of FreeBSD. None of the others have distros, AFAIK. PC-BSD was a FreeBSD distro. iXsystems acquired it, turned it into TrueOS, and then killed it 4Y ago.

https://www.truenas.com/trueos-discontinuation/