Comment by pjmlp
6 months ago
On the server room yes, but only in the sense UNIX has won, and Linux is the cheapest way to acquire UNIX, with the BSDs sadly looking from their little corner.
However on embedded, and desktop, the market belongs to others, like Zehyr, NutXX, Arduino, VxWorks, INTEGRITY,... and naturally Apple, Google and Microsoft offerings.
Also Linux is an implementation detail on serverless/lambda deployments, only relevant to infrastructure teams.
BSD has nothing to feel mournful about. Its derivatives are frequently found in the data center, but largely unremarked because it’s under the black box of storage and network appliances.
And it’s in incredible numbers - hundreds of millions of units - of game consoles.
The BSD family isn’t taking a bow in public, that’s all.
Orbis OS has very little of FreeBSD, if that is what you mean.
And outside NetFlix, there aren't many big shots talking about it nowadays.
It looks exactly like a BSD syscall table. Including one I wrote an implementation of. https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps5/Syscalls
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