Comment by LeFantome

The story is pretty simple.

Linux got early commercial interest. That led to far better hardware support. The snowball continues to get bigger to this day.

When FreeBSD would have been getting corporate interest, when it was both free and clearly superior technically, BSD was being sued by AT&T and BSD looked risky. The lawsuit resolved and FreeBSD was born but not until after Linux was in the wild. It was too late.

We will always get these articles from those that prefer FreeBSD. It will never get enough attention to break the cycle started in the 90’s.