“At present there is an obvious dearth of third party
applications for any of the OSS operating systems, although
obviously Linux is gaining quite a few. The great thing is that,
for the most part, any of the BSDs can take advantage of these
applications through Linux emulation.”
“The development of KDE (http://www.kde.org/) and Gnome
(http://www.gnome.org/), although designed for Linux, will help in
attracting some of these users to OSS operating systems and it’s a
certainty that the BSDs will see some spillover from the publicity
Linux is seeing right now.
“As lovers of BSD, now is the time to use the publicity Linux
has to promote the BSDs. If you hear of someone who wants to try
Linux, suggest to them that they try your favorite BSD flavor.”