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beckey wrote:

>In FreeBSD, are it that commercial softwares such as Oracle,
>VeritasVCS, and LifeKeeper are fewer than that of Linux why?
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I would guess that the main reason is that there are more Linux boxes in
the world than there are FreeBSD boxes.

Secondarily, since FreeBSD has pretty good Linux emulation any package
that has been ported to Linux might run on FreeBSD. So there is less
motivation/reason to make a native FreeBSD port.