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by overfeed 259 days ago
> though why FreeBSD didn’t I’m not sure

The same reason why Ubuntu won the server market (for a while): by capturing the home-desktop/laptop market first, and then worming its way to employer environments by way of familiarity. Linux had broader driver coverage for consumer hardware; there was a time when running *BSD on fragmented consumer hardware was a crapshot.
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Gud 259 days ago
Linux was already dominant long before Ubuntu.

the answer is because of the AT&T lawsuit against university of California in the 90s that dragged and tainted the BSD code base.

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overfeed 258 days ago
I said Linux won for the same reason as Ubuntu (winning the distro wars), I did not say Linux won because of Ubuntu. Ubuntu:Linux Distros::Linux:server OSes
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