Slashdot posted an interesting story earlier this week. Luke Wolf, a key KDE developer, made the bold prediction that FreeBSD will surpass Linux in the next five years.
On his blog, Wolf points out that Linux distros haven’t changed much over the past ten years and have failed to gain market share. He goes on to praise PC-BSD for its rapid development cycle, focus on desktop features, integration with FreeNAS, and power-user features, leading to his belief in the potential of FreeBSD and PC-BSD. He then contines:
“PC-BSD’s offering is only going to become stronger as time goes on, while I fear Linux desktop distros in 5 years will be much the same as they are now. “
In fact, there are already signs that BSD is moving to be a dominant force on the operating system playing field. FreeBSD is making headway into corporate mainstream acceptance. Several prominent companies run or base their software products on BSD, including WhatsApp, Netflix, Sony (Playstation 4), and Apple (OS X).
It seems that it’s only a matter of time before FreeBSD and PC-BSD are embraced by a more mainstream audience.
